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HISTORY
American Indian Test
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History
6th Grade
10/01/2012

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NATURAL RESOURCES
Definition
useful materials found in nature, including water, animals, vegetation and minerals that determined what shelters and main source of food was for each Indiand tribe
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ASIA
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the continent from where archaeologists believe early Americans came from

 

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BERING LAND BRIDGE
Definition
scientists think that people and animals migrated over this in search of food (also known as Beringia)
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CACTUS HILL
Definition
was an ancient campsite 45 miles south of Richmond, Virginia that is believed to be 18,000 years old
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  • FOOD
  • SHELTER
  • CLOTHING
Definition
American Indians used their environment to meet these three basic needs
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ARCHEOLOGY
Definition
recovery of material evidence remaining from the past
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CAPITAL RESOURCES
Definition
  • goods produced and used to make other goods and services
  • canoes, bows and spears
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INUIT
Definition
  • Present-day Alaska and northern Canada (Arctic Indians)
  • temperature below freezing much of the year
  • live in igloos
  • eat whales and seals
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KWAKIUTL
Definition
  • Pacific Northwest (Coastal Indians)
  • rainy, mild climate
  • live in wooden plank houses with totem poles
  • eat fish, especially salmon
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PUEBLO
Definition
  • Southwest in present day New Mexico and Arizona (Desert Indians)
  • desert areas and bordering cliffs and mountains
  • adobe houses
  • eat corn
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LAKOTA (SIOUX)
Definition
  • grassland of the Great Plains (Plains Indians)
  • dry grasslands
  • live in teepee's
  • food is buffalo
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IROQUOIS
Definition
  • Northeast North America
  • (Eastern Woodland Indians)
  • heavily forested
  • longhouse
  • food is deer, elk, beans, squash
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natural resources
Definition
  • things that come directly from nature
  • fish, wild animals and crops

 

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human resources
Definition
  • people working together to produce goos and services
  • people who fished, made clothing and hunted animals
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