Native Americans

Here is the website for pictures of homes and glossary terms in case you lost your paper.
http://www.ahsd25.k12.il.us/Curriculum%20Info/NativeAmericans/index.html

The following terms will be on your qtest.

Adobe	Adobe is a kind of natural clay that is sticky when wet but dries hard.
Ancestors	Ancestors are those people that lived long before.
Ceremonies	A ceremony is a group of acts performed according to certain rules.
Clan	A clan is a group of relatives who share the same ancestor.
Culture	Culture is a group's way of life that includes language, clothing, food and religion.
Customs	The way a group of people do things.
Expedition	A trip made for a certain reason.
Loincloth	A loincloth is two pieces of cloth or animal skin, front and back, tied at the waist.
Nomadic	Nomadic describes a group of people that move often to find food.
Potlatch	A celebration feast held by people of the Northwest.
Pueblo	A group of southwestern buildings made of adobe bricks.
Swamp	A swamp is an area of wet, soggy land that is sometimes covered in water.
Totem	An animal or object that is a symbol for a family in the Northwest. Several of them are carved on cedar poles.
Traditions	Handing down beliefs and customs from older people to younger people.
Treaties	Agreements between two groups of people .
Tribe	A group of people living together under a leader.

For the quiz, please know the following:


Researchers believe there were between one and 30 million Natives, divided into tribes, in America when the Europeans arrived.

Woodland - Iroquois and Algonquin (language groups)
1772 the 6 Nations was formed (group of 6 tribes)

SouthEast - Cherokee, Chicksaw & Creek
mound builders - temples and burial sites (some up to 10 stories high)

Great Plains - Lakota & Dakota
buffalo hunters

Great Basin - Shoshone
few people living in the Great Basin
California had many tribes before Europeans arrived.

SouthWest - Navajo - largest tribe
desert climate/terrain

NorthWest - Chinook
plenty of food and, cedar wood for homes and canoes