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Native American
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mesa | A hill with a flat top |
| Dugout | another name for canoe |
| Long house | a home where several families live |
| shaman | a medicine man |
| adobe | a mixture of straw and clay back into bricks |
| kachina dolls | items used to educate children in the southwest about their culture |
| potlatch | a celebration to rise and honor the totem poles |
| Kiva | a round under ground structure for ceremonies |
| Agriculture | farming |
| Democracy | a form of government where all the citizens are included |
| Drought | A period of a little or no rain |
| irrigation | a waterway to get water to crops |
| stockade | a high fence for a protection |
| maize | corn |
| there sisters | corn beans and squash |
| Travois | a sled like a device used to carry items. was often attaches to dogs and hours to be pulled |