Native Americans of the Great Basin | Native Americans of the Plateau | Native Americans of the Plains | Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest | Native Americans Miscelaneous |
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Native Americans
Who lived in the United States before the Europeans arrived?
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What did the Nez Perce do when their winter food supplies ran out?They broke into groups to find food
What did the Nez Perce do when their winter food supplies ran out?
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What are the plains?They are flat grasslands that stretch from Canada to Mexico, across the midwestern United States
What are the plains?
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Great ceremonies that lasted for days.
What were potlatches?
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They would eventually follow the American culture
What did most Europeans and Americans think the Native Americans would do?
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The push westward from European settlers led to the downfall of some Native American cultures
What happened in the 1800s to Native Americans living west of the Mississippi River?
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They ate some of it fresh and dried the rest to eat later
How did the Nez Perce use salmon?
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The bison
What animal was an important source of food for Plains people?
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The poles represented a family or clan and served as a reminder of their ancestry
What was the purpose of totem poles?
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A school for Native children to learn the American ways
What was the Carlisle School?
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Between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Where is the Great Basin?
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He is a trickster
Who is Coyote in Nez Perce mythology?
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guns
What did Native Americans of the Plains acquire from Europeans and settlers?
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It took more than a year.
How long did it take to plan a potlatch?
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They had never been exposed to the new diseases and had no medicine for them.
Why were the Native Americans unable to fight off the European diseases?
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Men pulled the pine cones off the trees. Women and children collected the cones in baskets
How did people work together to harvest pine nuts?
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Wanderer and Sleek
Who are the two coyotes in the story A Coyote Tale?
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Having horses brought them into more conflict with other Native American groups
How did horses bring war to Native Americans of the Plains?
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It meant both parties would be required to help each other in the future.
What did the giving of gifts between a guest and host mean?
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It guaranteed them a reservation until the end of time.
What did the 2nd Treaty of For Laramie guarantee the Sioux?
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They taught them myths, traditions, and necessary skills to find shelter, food, and water.
What did the people of the Great Basin teach their children?
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He believes he is not a coyote.
What does Sleek believe about himself because of the encounter with a human?
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It means to show the most bravery or skill, sometimes by embarrassing the enemy by taking his gun or horse.
What does it mean to count coup?
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It tells a story about the party giver.
What does the totem raised at a celebration represent?
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It would bring dead and living Native Americans together in their homelands
What did the Ghost Dance do?
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