| A | B |
|---|
| oral tradition | information passed along by word of mouth |
| sakima | the wise man or woman of the village who settled arguments |
| wigwam | small round house |
| longhouse | large rectangular house |
| heritage | history, beliefs, and way of life shared by a group of people |
| ancestors | people in your family who were born before you were born |
| prehistory | the time before written records |
| archaeologist | someone who studies artifacts to learn about the past |
| artifact | an object made by people in the past, like tools and arrowheads |
| Ice Age | when Earth's climate was much colder; about 40,000 years ago |
| Bering Strait | the body of water between Asia & Alaska |
| Beringia | the strip of land that connected Asia to Alaska during the Ice Age |
| manetu | spirit forces who controlled the world |
