Early Idaho Native Americans
Chapter 3 Study Guide
Test: Wednesday, December 12th
Ice Age
 12,000 years ago.
 large parts of Asia and North
America were covered with ice
customs and
 the way people live
cultures
Six main early
 Kootenai
Native
 Kalispel
American tribes
 Coeur d’Alene
of Idaho
 Nez Perce
 Bannock
 Shoshone/Shoshoni
camas and
 roots that were dug and used as food
bitterroot
mortar and
 stone tools used to grind food
pestle
mano and
 a round rock rubbed over a flat rock
metate
to grind food
jerky
 dried meat
pemmican
 dried meat ground into a fine
powder, mixed with melted fat, and
made into little cakes.
 sometimes berries were added
tipi
 type of tent shaped like a cone
 covered with animal hides or mats
of woven grasses
mat-covered
longhouse
sweat lodge or
sweat house
wind and sun
shelter
sign language
pictographs
petroglyphs
travois
myths or
legends
sinew
 a more permanent type of shelter
 several families lived in them
together
 could be over 100 feet long
 made of sod, sticks, or hides
 steam was made by pouring water
on hot rocks
 used for religious reasons
 dome shaped house used to protect
Native Americans from the sun and
wind
 a way of talking using hands and
arms to make signs
 symbols painted on rocks
 symbols scratched into rocks
 two long poles tied together
 animals skin was fastened between
the poles
 pulled behind a horse or a dog to
help carry supplies
 stories about people or animals
 very important to the Native
Americans
 tendon that fastens muscle to the
bone in an animal