| A | B |
|---|
| diversity | having differences |
| cultural region | region in which people in the same area share some ways of life |
| chinooks | best known traders of the northwest coast |
| pithouse | house bulit partly over a hole dug in the ground which had some underground rooms |
| clan | group of familes that are related |
| dugouts | boats made from large hollowed out tree trunks |
| barter | trade |
| potlatches | special gatherings with feasts and dancing |
| makahs | northwest coast indians who built canoes and hunted whales |
| totem pole | wooden post carved with shapes of people and animals and showed a family's history and importance |
| arrid | dry |
| Hopi | southwest pueblo indian people |
| kachinas | spirits some indians believed visited the living once a year and entered their bodies |
| ceremonies | special services held in kivas |
| Navajo | SW indian people who settled the 4 corners area in the USA |
| hogan | cone shaped house built by covering a log frame with mud or grass |
| shaman | religious leader and healer |
| teepee | cone shaped tents made of poles covered by buffalo skins |
| legends | stories handed down over time to explain the past |
| Iroquois League | formed when the fighting Iroquois tribes united |
| confederation | loose group of governments each goverened by itself |
| council | group that makes laws |
| longhouse | long wooden building in which several Iroquois families lived together |
| Cherokee | another eastern woodland tribe who lived in the river valleys of the southern Appalachians |
| Mayas | indians of middle america who took the olmec ways of life to even greater heights |
| city state | city with its own ruler and governmnet |
| classes | groups of people treated with different amounts of respect in society |
| nobles | people from important families |
| slavery | practice of holding people against their will and making them carry out orders |
| Aztecs | middle american indians who began to setle in the valley of mexico |
| empire | aconquered land of many people and places governed by one ruler |
| emperor | ruler of an empire |
| tribute | name for payments a ruler demands for his/her people |
