Utah Native American Vocabulary
Ute
Shoshone
Paiute
Adapt
Prehistoric
Goshute
Navajo
Proverb
Legend
Migration
Archeologist
A Native group who controlled most of Utah, lived in tepees and had horses.
A Native group that lived in Northern Utah, Idaho and Wyoming in tepees and had horses.
A hunter/gatherer people who lived in Southwestern Utah in wicki-ups.
To adjust to new conditions.
Before written history.
A Native group who where called root diggers and lived in wicki-ups..
A Native group, who lived in hogans, raised sheep and called themselves the Diné.
Short sayings that teach life lessons.
Stories that teach life lessons and how things came to be to their children.
Movement from one place to another.
Scientists who learn about early people by excavating and studying the traces of early
settlements.
Anthropologist Scientists who study ancient cultures
Paleontologist
Scientists that study fossilized remains.
Primary Source
Something made or written by someone who was there at the time; an original record.
Secondary Source
Something made or written by someone who was not there at the time.
Artifact
An archaeological object made by a human being.
Wicki-up
A temporary brush dwelling used by Paiute and Goshute Indians.
Hogan
An eight-sided Navajo Indian dwelling made of logs and earth.
Petroglyph
Ancient carvings on rock.
Fremont
An ancient Native American farming group who lived in Great Basin.
Atlatl
A spear thrower that made the spear fly faster and farther than when thrown by hand.
Anasazi
An ancient Native American group that lived on Mesas and in cliff dwellings.
Archaic People
Ancient hunter-gatherer Indians who lived in Utah about 6500 B.C.
Utah Native American Vocabulary
Ute
Shoshone
Paiute
Adapt
Prehistoric
Goshute
Navajo
Proverb
Legend
Migration
Archeologist
A Native group who controlled most of Utah, lived in tepees and had horses.
A Native group that lived in Northern Utah, Idaho and Wyoming in tepees and had horses.
A hunter/gatherer people who lived in Southwestern Utah in wicki-ups.
To adjust to new conditions.
Before written history.
A Native group who where called root diggers and lived in wicki-ups..
A Native group, who lived in hogans, raised sheep and called themselves the Diné.
Short sayings that teach life lessons.
Stories that teach life lessons and how things came to be to their children.
Movement from one place to another.
Scientists who learn about early people by excavating and studying the traces of early
settlements.
Anthropologist Scientists who study ancient cultures
Paleontologist
Scientists that study fossilized remains.
Primary Source
Something made or written by someone who was there at the time; an original record.
Secondary Source
Something made or written by someone who was not there at the time.
Artifact
An archaeological object made by a human being.
Wicki-up
A temporary brush dwelling used by Paiute and Goshute Indians.
Hogan
An eight-sided Navajo Indian dwelling made of logs and earth.
Petroglyph
Ancient carvings on rock.
Fremont
An ancient Native American farming group who lived in Great Basin.
Atlatl
A spear thrower that made the spear fly faster and farther than when thrown by hand.
Anasazi
An ancient Native American group that lived on Mesas and in cliff dwellings.
Archaic People
Ancient hunter-gatherer Indians who lived in Utah about 6500 B.C.