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Native American Cultural Regions Review
Complete all multiple choice questions. Circle the correct answer.
1) What type of houses did houses did the Northwest Coast make?
A. Wood house with cedar totem poles
B. Adobe Pueblo apartments
C. Buffalo-hide tepee
D. Cone-shaped redwood house
2) Which of these did the Native Americans of the Southwest make?
A. Fish Traps
B. Clamshell bead necklace
C. Cotton clothes
D. Palm-leaf chickee built on platform
3) What is the sacred animal of the Great Plains?
A) Deer
B) Fish
C) Turkey
D) Buffalo
4) Which of these is the canoe the Native Americans of the Eastern
Woodlands make?
A. Flat bottom dugout canoe
B. Maple and Oak river canoe
C. Cedar and birch bark canoe
D. Elm tree wood canvas
5) Which one of these regions have a swamp-like environment?
A. Plateau
B. California-Intermountain
C. Northwest
D. Southeast
6) What region wore turkey-feather capes?
A. South East
B. Eastern Woodlands
C. Great Plains
D. Plateau
7) What job in the Makah tribe makes you the leader?
A. Gatherer
B. Whale Hunter
C. Priest
D. Buffalo Hunter
8) How did the Taos get from room to room in their houses?
A. Elevators
B. Stairs
C. Ladders
D. Block jumping
9) Label the culture in the correct region.
10. Fill in the region, an artifact, and why that artifact was useful.
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11. Write definitions for these words:
-Culture
-Cultural Region
-Gorge
-Government
-Artifact
12. Match the definitions with the correct answer.
-Tepee
-Makahs
-Taos
-Iowas
-Senecas
-Native Americans
-people who came to
America first
-a tribe who worshipped
Buffalo
-cone shaped houses
made from Buffalo skin
-a tribe who lived in a
mountainous area
-a tribe who lived in
longhouses
-a tribe who held the
ceremony potlatch
Answer Key:
1) A. Wood house with cedar totem poles
2) C. Cotton clothes
3) D. Buffalo
4) C. Cedar and birch-bark
5) D. Southeast
6) B. Eastern Woodlands
7) B. Whale Hunter
8) C. Ladders
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Plateau
Nez Perce’s, Yakamas and Spokane’s
Digging stick
Underground wood winter homes
Digging stick with animal horn was an artifact because it helped them push
a root out of the ground. It was made from an attached handle and curved
hardwood stick.
Northwest Coast
Tlingit, Chincooks and Kwawtiklls
Wood houses with totem poles
Cedar and Willow fish trap because it was made from nearby natural
resources (cedar). They chose this trap so they have a way of catching the
salmon. The waterproof aspect helps when catching the fish.
Califiornia-Intermountain
Shoshones, Paiutes, Miwoks and Pomos
Clam shell necklaces
Cone shaped redwood house because the materials needed were nearby,
and easy to get. The sturdy wood was handy because it held strong against
weather.
Southwest
Apaches, Hopis, and Anasazis
Clay Pots
Adobe Pueblo Apartments
Adobe pueblo apartments because it is made from natural resources like
stone and was stable. This allowed a nice apartment-like home.
Great Plains
Cheyennes, Pawnees, Comanches, and Sioux
Buffalo hide blankets
Buffalohide tepees
They used buffalo skin to make buffalo hide tepees. Buffalo were all around
them moving, so they moved a lot. This house made it easy to move
around.
Eastern Woodlands
Senecas, Mohawks, Mohegan, and Delawares
Cedar and birch bark canoe
Wigwams
The cedar and birch bark canoe was a very important artifact to these
Native Americans because this was a fast way of transportation. This was
practical because the resources for it were all around them like birch,
cedar, maple, etc.
Southeast
Creeks, Choctaws, Seminoles
Deer-hide leggings
Chickees
The Native Americans made deer-hide leggings to protect them from the
sharp saw grass. They made them out of nearby deer.
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Culture:
Way of living of a group of people. A group’s culture includes such things
as its language, beliefs, tools, types of homes, and ways of working and
playing.
Cultural Region:
An area of the world where’s people develop similar ways of life or cultures.
For example, Native American in North America lived in several cultural
regions. The group within each region had similar culture.
Gorge:
A narrow, deep valley with steep sides.
Governments:
The organization that makes the laws in a country, state, or community and
has the power to enforce them.
Artifact:
An object made by a group of humans, such as tools and clothes. Artifacts
help us understand the ways of life of the people who made them.
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