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Part 1 Home

teepee	longhouse
igloo	wickiup
chickee	pueblo

wigwam - Algonquian and Great Lake Tribes

longhouse - Iroquois

log house - Cherokee

chickee - Seminole

pueblo - Pueblo

hogan - Navajo

wickiup - Apache

plank house - Northwest Coastal

igloo - Inuit

teepee - Plains

Part 2 Art Work

Fill in the blanks. Use the words below to help you.

1. The Navajo made paintings from sand to help cure the sick.

2. The Algonquin Indians made dream catchers to help their children have good dreams.

3. The Seminole women wore many necklaces . She received a new one each birthday until she turned 40.

4. The Northwest Coastal Indians built tall totem poles and placed them in front of their homes.

5. The Pueblo Indians made dolls of their gods called Kachinas and gave them to the children to play with so they would not be afraid of the gods during ceremonies

6. The Inuit made carvings from whale bones .

7. The Plains Indians made just about everything from buffalo hides.

8. The Eastern Woodland Indians beaded medicine bags and filled them with herbs.

9. The Northeast Indians made containers from birchbark.

10. The Plains Indians were the only group to wear war bonnets. The chief wore this when he went into battle.

11. Rattles were musical instruments used by many Native American groups. The Southwest Indians made theirs from turtle shells.

12. Drums were another musical instrument. They were usually made from hollow logs. Some were filled with water to make different tones.

13. The Iroquois made masks from corn husks.

Part 3 Location of Tribes

Can you tell where each groups or tribe lived?

Southwest Navajo

Middle of North America Plains

Eastern Woodlands Seminole

Eastern Woodlands Algonquian and Great Lake Tribes

Southwest Apache

Eastern Woodlands Iroquois

Far North Inuit

Eastern Woodlands Cherokee

Southwest Pueblo

Northwest
Northwest Coastal Tribes

Which region does this describe?

area from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to Mexico Plains

area that is now Alaska along the Pacific Ocean down the coast to Northern California Northwest Coast

covers the area which in now Utah and Colorado through Arizona and New Mexico into parts of Texas and California Southwest

the area from Canada in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south and from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Mississippi in the west Eastern Woodlands

Part 4 Clothing

Fill in the blanks with a Native American group. (Note some items below may have more than one answer. You need to name only one.)

Which Native American group wore clothes made from:

Plains buffalo hides

Seminole plant fibers

Pueblo cotton or wool

Algonquian and Great Lake Tribes, Cherokee (at times) elk or deer hides

Apache, Navajo copied clothes of the Mexicans

Northwest Coastal Indians wood fibers

Inuit caribou or seal skins

Cherokee deer hides and woven plants

Part 5 Food

Name the group.

The Apache raided other tribes for food.
The Inuit ate otters, walruses, seals, and caribou.
The Northwest Coastal Tribes ate salmon, whales, bear, caribou, deer, elk, and moose as well as roots and berries gathered from the forests.
The Pueblo were desert farmers. They grew alot of corn.
The Plains Indians ate buffalo.
The Iroquois ate beans, squash, and corn which they named The Three Sisters. They also hunted for deer, bears, caribou, elk, moose, wild duck, geese, partridge, beavers, and other game.
The Great Lake Tribes were hunters and farmers. Much of their diet was wild rice.