| A | B |
|---|
| Economy | The process by which people use the natural resources to provide for their survival. |
| Technology | Tools and ways of getting work done. |
| Communally | By all, for all |
| Catawba | Refer to themselves as "the river people". |
| Cherokee | Refer to themselves as "the real people". |
| Wigwam | A circular or oblong house made of long saplings covered with bark. |
| Wattle | The post of the walls, interwoven with smaller twigs. |
| Daub | The clay or mud used to fill gaps between posts to build a cabin/wigwam. |
| Thatch | Straw or grass |
| Mythology | Stories told to explain the mysteries of life. |
| Matrilineal | A society in which ancestry is traced through the mother. |
| Palisade | Fence made of sharp stakes. |
| Shaman | Medicine men who were skilled in the art of dealing with spirits that inhabited the forests. |
