Lesson 1 Geography and Climate Lesson 2 Indian Culture Lesson 3 Working Together Potpourri

How did the Native Americans of the Desert Southwest get their food?

Agriculture

This group lived in villages in the spring when they planted crops and lived in tepees during the summer when they traveled and hunted buffalo.

Great Plains

What technology did the Native Americans of the Desert Southwest use to grow crops?

Irrigation

Much has been learned about Native American life by examining where they lived and looking at artifacts. The study of these objects is called.

Archaeology

These two groups made canoes from logs or birch bark.

Pacific Northwest and Eastern Woodlands

Why were a group’s folklore and traditions passed down from one generation to another through song, stories, celebrations and ceremonies?

They had no written language

Why did the Iroquois hold harvest festivals?

To honor nature and celebrate a good harvest.

A group’s stories and customs

folklore

Why did the chief of Pacific Northwest groups hold a potlatch and give goods to other members of the group?

It showed how well he had controlled the group’s resources.

What are the three main reasons that Native Americans had celebrations or ceremonies?

Honor nature, social purposes and religious importance

What did the groups of the Great Plains have to trade with other groups?

Buffalo Products

Who convinced the five groups to join and form the Iroquois Confederacy?

Hiawatha

Name two types of governments that Native Americans had.

Iroquois Confederacy Council of Chiefs Village Council

How did economies of many American Indian groups develop?

Food Surplus Created goods Traded with other groups

What issues did the Iroquois Confederacy discuss?

Land Use Trade War

Where did groups from the Desert Southwest meet with groups from the Great Plains to trade?

In the Rocky Mountains in what is currently New Mexico.

To trade goods for other goods without the use of money.

barter

What is a Winter Count?

The drawing of symbols on a hide to tell the group’s history

Why did the following groups use these materials to build their homes? Desert Southwest – Adobe Pacific Northwest – cedar plank houses Eastern Woodlands – wigwams, longhouses Great Plains – Tepee, earth lodges

They used the resources that were available to them.

Many of the first people who came to North America were nomads. How were these groups able to settle in one area?

They learned to farm and live off of the resources around them.