VOCABULARY | WHAT OR WHO AM I? | THE EARLY, EARLY AMERICANS | WHICH INDIAN TRIBE IS WHICH? | MISCELLANEOUS |
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WHAT IS A MESA?
THE SPANISH WORD FOR TABLE, MEANING ROCKY, FLAT-TOPPED HILL
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WHO WERE THE HUNTER-GATHERERS?
A SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO FED THEMSELVES BY HUNTING ANIMALS AND GATHERING PLANTS
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WHAT IS ASIA?
THE CONTINENT THE ORIGINAL AMERICANS CAME FROM IN EARLY HISTORY.
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WHO WERE THE CHEROKEE?
THIS TRIBE HAD A MAN NAMED SEQUOYAH WHO HAD LARGE TREES NAMED AFTER HIM.
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WHAT IS FOUR CORNERS?
POINT WHERE COLORADO, NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA, AND UTAH MEET
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WHAT IS A WIGWAM?
A BUILDING MADE WITH A DOME SHAPED TOP AND POLES USED BY THE IROQUOIS (AND OTHER TRIBES), BUT THEY DID NOT SLEEP IN IT.
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WHAT IS A CONFEDERACY?
I'M A LOOSELY ORGANIZED GROUP OF STATES OR TRIBES.
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WHAT WAS THE ICE AGE?
A TIME IN EARTH'S HISTORY WHEN LARGE SHEETS OF ICE COVERED THE LAND.
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WHO WERE THE SEMINOLES?
TRIBE FROM WHOSE NAME WAS USED TO NAME A COLLEGE ATHLETIC TEAM
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WHO WERE THE INUIT?
TRIBE OF THE ESKIMOS
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WHAT ARE THE NORTHERN LIGHTS?
LIGHTS WHICH SHOW COLOR IN THE NORTHERN SKY WHICH COME FROM THE SUN'S REFLECTION
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WHAT IS A CANYON?
I'M A DEEP VALLEY BETWEEN MOUNTAINS CUT THROUGH THE ROCK BY A RIVER.
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WHAT IS BERINGIA?
WORD THAT MEANS A LAND BRIDGE (WHERE EARLY PEOPLE LIVED)
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WHO WERE THE COMMANCHE?
THE ONLY TRIBE MORE POWERFUL THAN THE APACHE AND THE NAVAJO
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WHO WERE THE MAHICAN?
EASTERN WOODLAND INDIAN TRIBE MEANING "GREAT WATER THAT IS ALWAYS MOVING, EITHER EBBING OR FLOWING"
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WHAT IS A DROUGHT?
A TIME WHEN THERE IS VERY LITTLE WATER IN A PLACE
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WHAT IS A CLAN?
I'M A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THEY WERE DESCENDED FROM A COMMON ANCESTOR.
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WHAT IS A MAMMOTH?
A LARGE ANCIENT ELEPHANT WHICH WAS HUNTED IN BERINGIA
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WHO WERE THE ANASAZI?
TRIBE WHO BUILT VILLAGES IN CLIFFS
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WHAT IS "THE THREE SISTERS"?
CORN, BEANS AND SQUASH WERE CALLED THIS BY THE IROQUOIS
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WHAT IS AN IGLOO?
A DOMED SHAPE SHELTER MADE OF ICE BLOCKS WHICH WERE USED BY THE ESKIMOS
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WHAT IS AN ANCESTOR?
I'M A RELATIVE FROM LONG AGO.
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WHAT IS ALASKA?
FIRST STATE (IT WASN'T A STATE THEN) WHERE PEOPLE WALKED IN DURING THE ICE AGE
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WHO WERE THE HOPI?
THE PEACEFUL TRIBE
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WHO WERE THE MOUND BUILDERS?
GROUP OF INDIANS WHO BUILT THEIR GRAVES ABOVE GROUND IN MOUNDS
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