Test on Native Americans
(58 questions)

Part 1 Homes

Name these homes..

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longhouse.gif (5764 bytes)
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chickee.gif (3253 bytes)
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Match the home with the Native American group. Select name of the home before each Indian group.

  Algonquian and Great Lake Tribes

   Iroquois

   Cherokee

   Seminole

   Pueblo

   Navajo

   Apache

   Northwest Coastal

   Inuit (Eskimo)

   Plains

Part 2 Art Work

Fill in the blanks.

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

  2. The Algonquian Indians made to help their children have good dreams.

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

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

  5. The Pueblo Indians made dolls of their gods called 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 .

  7. The Plains Indians made just about everything from .

  8. The Eastern Woodland Indians beaded and filled them with herbs for curing the sick..

  9. The Northeast Indians made containers from .

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

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

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

  13. The Iroquois made masks from .

Part 3 Location

Can you name the region of North America where the tribes or groups listed below lived?

Navajo

Plains

Seminole

Algonquian and                                  Great Lake Tribes

Apache

Iroquois

Inuit

Cherokee

Pueblo

Northwest Coastal                                      Tribes

Which region does this describe?

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

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

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

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

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:

  siouxindian.jpg (2919 bytes)buffalo hideskiowa.jpg (3895 bytes)

  seminolewoman.jpg (2843 bytes)plant fibers

  pueblowoman.jpg (2366 bytes)cotton or wool

  algonquianbrave.jpg (2397 bytes)elk or deer hides iroquoisindian.jpg (2759 bytes)

  apachewoman.jpg (3218 bytes)copied clothes of the                                                          Mexicans

haida.jpg (3113 bytes) wood fibersnootka.jpg (3019 bytes)

inuitindian.jpg (3025 bytes) caribou or seal skinsinuitindian2.jpg (3013 bytes)

cherokeeman.jpg (3031 bytes)deer hides and woven plants

Part 5 Food

Name the group.

  1. The  raided other tribes for food. 

  2. The ate otters, walruses, seals, and caribou.

  3. The   ate salmon, whales, bear, caribou, deer, elk, and moose as well as roots and berries gathered from the forests. 

  4. The were desert farmers. They grew alot of corn.

  5. The ate buffalo.

  6. The 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.

  7. The were hunters and farmers. Much of their diet was wild rice.

 

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