Zachary's Lenape Cards
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21 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 clan | a group of families with a common ancestor, and the groups that the Lenape people belonged to: turtle, wolf and turkey |
| maize | a cereal grain used in cooking, another name for corn |
| legend | a story passed down through the ages, not a fact |
| immunity | the ability to resist certain diseases |
| vision quest | when a boy was 12 years old he went on a vision quest to find his own guardian spirit, without food or water. he prayed for his guardian spirit to come and protect him |
| archeologist | a scientist who learns about ancient people, scientist that learns about artifacts to learn how, where and when a group of people lived |
| colonist | people that came over the land bridge to learn about the country, Europeans who came to America and formed settlements and colonies |
| culture | a group of people with shared traditions |
| saplings | a bendy branch used for a longhouses and to build wigwams |
| harvest festival | an annual celebration that takes place during the main harvest of an area |
| reservation | an area of land set by the US government for american indians to live |
| how did the Lenape use the natural resources of NJ to meet their basic needs ? | food- they ate - fish, corn, shellfish, plants, roots, berries from the wildreness and the coast shelter- they burned down trees to make room for houses clothing- they got there clothing from dry animal skin |
| Be able to explain using examples, how your life is different from that of a Lenape child | it is different because they had to work for there food while we go out and buy it and we also have much more then them |
| how did the Lenape's life change when the Europeans arrived ? give examples | they started dying from the european diseases they had to move Bretherton which is now called Indian Mills they grew smaller and smaller and eventually they were only about 200 people left |
| explain how the deer was important to the Lenape li give examples | skinned animal for blankets and clothing bone and fat for soup bones and teeth for tools meat they ate |
| know different types of shelter the Lenape built | longhouse and wigwams |
| what were clans? what were the names of the clans of the Lenape tribe | family groups determined by the mother turkey, turtle, wolf |
| what culture area were the Lenape part of? | eastern woodlands group |
| know the difference between the jobs of the men and women , boys and girls | boys and men- made canoes, and utensils, hunted and fished and built houses women- gathered plants, roots, berries and cooked they collected firewood , made pots and baskets and clothing |
| sinew | tendons and ligaments used for sewing and binding seams |
| artifact | things or evidence left behind by people who lived long ago (like pots jewelry, garbage and rock art |
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