| A | B |
| Ice Age | A time in history when the earth was covered in ice. |
| Explorer | A person who left their home looking for new places and exciting adventures |
| tribes | A small group of people joined with common beliefs and interests. |
| customs | The practices and beliefs of a group of people |
| resourceful | To make good use of materials around you |
| individuality | Characterisitcs of being unique or special. |
| social | to communicate and get a long with others. |
| technique | The way in which a task is done. |
| adopted | To take a person or idea and make it your own. |
| legacies | The stories, customs, and memories left behind when people are no longer here. |
| venison meat | deer meat |
| sapling | A young tree. |
| palisades | walls of heavy poles shaprened to points at the top. |
| rafters | beams overhead |
| storage pits | longhouses dug pis to store food and valuables |
| snowshoe | worn over shoes to help walk in snow. |
| rawhides | Dried animal skins |
| elders | grandparents or older aunts and uncles, respected advisors. |
| "Three sisters" | Native name for corn, beans and squash. |
| bounty | plenty of crop |
| trench oven | large pit dug into the ground heated rocks were used to bake food. |
| wampam | purple and white beads traded as money. |
| nomad | A person that keeps moving from place to place. |
| ancestor | Early family members |
| extinct | died out |
| adapt | Change their way of living |
| agriculture | farming |
| tribe | Native American groups that have the same leader |
| artifact | An object made by people who lived in the past |
| archeology | study of artifacts to learn how people live long ago. |
| language group | tribe had different languages. |
| cultural regions | areas in which people share simialr language or cultural traits. |