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NATIVE AMERICAN
Study Guide
Define:
1. culture2. nomad3. maize4. barterBe able to identify, on a map of the United States, the 7 Native American Cultural Regions.
5. List 4 types of primary sources
A. ____________________________
B. ____________________________
C. ____________________________
D. ____________________________
6. List 3 contributions in the arts by the American Indians.
A. ____________________________
B. ____________________________
C. ____________________________
Matching – 1 used more than once.
A.
Northwest
B.
Southwest
C.
Eastern Woodlands
6._____These Native American built homes from adobe.
7._____They farmed, fished, hunted, used trees for homes and
canoes, and gathered plants for food.
8._____These Native Americans made clothing from
buffalos.
9._____Totem poles were made by this culture to tell about a
family’s history.
10._____This culture was nomadic because they were
hunting the buffalo.
D. Plains
11.How did the Eastern Woodlands Indians adapt to their environment?
a. They famed the land and lived in villages in adobe (clay) houses.
b. They farmed, fished, hunted, and used trees for homes and canoes, and gathered plants for
food.
c. They lived by the sea in igloos, fished through the ice, and wore heavy snowshoes to walk.
d. They moved around the region to hunt for buffalo and used horses to get from place to
place.
12.Native Americans passed on their values, ideas, and traditions through_____
a. Radio and television
c. Books and movies
b. Newspapers and magazines
d. Legends and folktales
13.The remains of cliff houses tell us something about the way ancient people lived in what is now
the Southwestern part of the United States. Which of the activities below would be the best way to
learn how these people may have lived in ancient times?
a. Study letters and diaries left in cliff houses.
b. Talk to people living near cliff houses.
c. Study tools, bones, and pottery left in cliff houses.
d. Camp out in cliff houses for a couple of days.
14.What did hunters and gatherers use the bones of the wholly mammoth for?
15.Why did Native Americans live near water?
16.Why did Cliff Dwellers build houses in the cliffs?
17.What are the 7 shelters listed in chapter 3 of the History Alive textbook AND what are each of
them made of?
18. Where did Native Americans migrate from (*Hint: We call them Siberians)? Why did they
migrate here?
19. Tell why different groups of Native Americans had to build different types of shelter, AND give
an example of how two shelters were different.
20. Native Americans used the ________________ they lived in to provide them with food, shelter, and
tools.
21. Beringia is the ____________________ Siberians crossed to get to North America during the Ice Age.
22. The Iroquois lived in the ________________________ region, and they often lived in ________________
houses.