| A | B |
|---|
| Genocide | elimination of a group, especially with violence |
| pictograph | rock art etched into desert varnish |
| petroglyph | rock art painted onto stone with dyes |
| zoomorph | animal figure |
| anthropomorph | human figure |
| intaglio | giant human or animal shape best viewed from far above |
| 3 sisters | planting technique for beans, corn and squash |
| horticulture | small scale farming using hand tools such as hoe or digging stick |
| agriculture | large scale farming using plows and irrigation techniques |
| hunting and gathering | nomadic lifestyle collecting available vegetation and killing game and fish |
| hieroglyph | stylized picture used to represent a word, sound or idea in writing systems |
| 4 corners | place where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet |
| Anasazi | Navajo term for ancestors or ancient ones |
| statistical genocide | elimination of a population by manipulating demographic information |
| Bering Strait land bridge theory | the assumption that native peoples poulated the Americas by crossing from Asia via a land bridge |
| ethnographic present | description of native people, not as they are now, but as they were thought to have lived in the past |
| Lakota wintercounts | pictoral representation of the most important event of the year from first snow to the following year's first snow |
| Mestizo | Individuals and cultlural characteristic that result from the marriage of an indigenous person and a Spanish "conqueror" |
