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| Shamans | priests and healers who could answer questions about disease, life or death, right or wrong. |
| Native Americans had great belief in... | religion where their natural environment played a major role. |
| Native Americans did NOT believe... | that anyone could own Mother Earth or any of her creatures. |
| Native Americans had... | ceremonies that included dancing and singing to drums. |
| Dances were held because.. | of religious reasons, to pray for rain or crops, or before or after a battle. |
| Native Americans were great... | traders and traded weapons, kettles, and axes. |
| The Europeans influenced the Native American culture when they brought over | sheep, goats, cattle, and horses. |
| Sadly, when the Eurpopeans came.... | the Native Americans were forces to give up some of thier land. |
| The advanced tools the Europeans brought... | changed the way Native Americans lived. They could no longer live as their ancestors did. |
| Many cities, towns, rivers, and mountains.. | still have Native American names. |
| The Woodland Native Americans lived... | in the forests of the Northeast and Southeast. |
| Animals such as deer, elk, and bears lived.. | in the Wooland areas. |
| The Woodlands used the trees to... | build canoes and shelters and sometimes food.. |
| The Woodland Native Americans were.. | farmers, hunters, and gatherers. |
| The village community of the Woodlands included... | buildings for ceremonies and meetings. |
| Palisade | A wall made of sharpened tree trunks which surrounds the village. |
| Slash and Burn | Method of Agriculture where dead trees are burned and fields are cleared. This enriches the soil. |
| Wigwams | Round bark covered shelters which Woodlands lived in. |
| Longhouses | The inland dwellings of Iroquois. |
| Iroquois and Algonquins | Woodland Native Americans |
| Wampum | Woodland beads made from porcupine quills or seashells. |
| Hiawatha | A famous shaman who persuaded 5 of the Iroquois tribes to stop fighting and join a league. |
| League | A union of people joined for a common purpose. |
| Six Nations | After the sixth group joined the league, it was called this. |
| The Creek Native Americans | Woodland Native Americans of the Southeast who divided their year into 2 seasons. |
| Five Civilized Tribes | The Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, and Seminoles. |
| Grassy Plains | West of the woodlands was this Central area. |
| Sioux, Mandans, Pawnees, and Omahas | Native Americans of the Central Plains |
| Lodges | The circular homes which the Plain Native Americans lived in. |
| Sod | Ground cover which includes both grass and grass roots used to cover lodges. |
| The Plain Nomads | The people who lived on the Great Plains who did not farm or live in villages. |
| Types of Plain Nomads | Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne, and Crow tribes. |
| The movement of the Plain Nomads depended on... | the movement of the buffalo |
| Tepee | The dwelling of the Plain Nomads. |
| The area that stretched from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean lived the... | Native Americans of the Columbia Plateau, the Native Americans of California, and the Great Basin. |
| Utes, Shoshones, & the Paiutes | Native Americans of the Great Basin who lived in small familiy groups. |
| The Native Americans of the Great Basin... | moved around a lot and were thus strictly hunters. |
| Native Americans of the Plateau | Nez Perce, the Klamath, the Yakima, & the Flatheads |
| Salmon was this group's staple food | The Native Americans of the Plateau |
| Each village had a chief, an assembly or law making body in the... | Plateau |
| California Native Americans | lived on the land between the Pacific Ocean and the Sierra Nevada. |
| The Southwest is a land of... | mountains, deserts, high plateaus, and deep canyons. |
| Springs | Places where underground water breaks through the earth's surface. |
| Native Americans of the Southwest who farmed and lived in villages were... | the Pueblos |
| HOPI | the peaceful, Pueblo people. |
| Hunters and gatherers of the Southwest are called... | the Apaches and the Navajos |
| Hogans | The scattered dwellings of the Navajos. They are round or six sided and made of logs and dried mud. |
| Like the Columbia Plateaur, Northwest Native Americans depended on.. | fish as a staple food. |
| Totems | Animal Spirits of the Northwest Native Americans |
| Potlaches | The feasts of the Northwest Native Americans where the host not only fed people but gave them presents. |
| Eskimos | Native Americans of the far north whose ancestors crossed Asia more than 4000 years ago. |
| Tundra | Flat, treeless land which stays frozen most of the year. |
| Arctic Plains | Part of the Far North where little flowers or soil is found. |
| Kayaks | Eskimo canoes covered with animal skin. |
| Igloo | A Native American dwelling made of snow blocks. |
