| A | B |
|---|
| a body of water that separates Asia from North America | Bering Strait |
| a gigantic sheet of ice | glacier |
| a hard stone | flint |
| a large northern area west of the Mississippi River | Dakota Territory |
| a person who studies the remains of ancient people and places | archeologist |
| Americans with European ancestors | Euro-American |
| ancestors of the Sioux and Chippewa people | Plains Nomadic |
| before written records were kept | prehistoric |
| belonging to an earlier time | archaic |
| business of trading | commerce |
| calendars & records of history made by many of the Plains Indians | Winter Counts |
| controls down stream flooding | Garrison Dam |
| dome-shaped home made of logs and covered with willow branches, grass, and earth | earthlodges |
| early ancestors of American Indians | Paleo-Indians |
| epidemic that killed thousands of Indians | smallpox |
| first people in North Dakota to plant crops and make pottery | Woodland People |
| French fur-trapper and trader | La Vérendrye |
| hides with fur | pelts |
| lived in wigwams and tipis | Chippewa |
| means ‘friend’ | Dakota |
| name of the reservation located near the Canadian border | Turtle Mountain |
| one of The Great Dakota Nation | Lakota |
| one of The Great Dakota Nation | Dakota |
| one of The Great Dakota Nation | Nakota |
| one of the Three Affiliated Tribes | Mandan |
| one of the Three Affiliated Tribes | Hidatsa |
| one of the Three Affiliated Tribes | Arikara |
| passing on information from generation to generation | oral history |
| people who are half Chippewa and half French | Metis |
| protected the village, hunted for meat | men |
| roam from place to place following herds of animals | nomadic |
| the villages the Mandan Indians set up | On-A-Slant |
| took care and built homes, did the farming | women |
| trading items for other items without exchanging money | bartering |
| were called Mound-Builders | Woodland People |
| written record of past events | history |
