Native Americans
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Plains Native Amercians | Group of Native Americans that lived in what is now the Central U.S. |
| Travois | A device for transportation among Plains Indians, the travois consisted of 2 long poles, each lashed to the sides of a horse pulling it. |
| Coup Stick | a special weapon used by the Lakota and Sioux soldiers to show bravery by touching but not killing his enemy |
| teepee | a cone-shaped tent made out of buffalo skins used by Native Americans of the plains |
| Jerky | meat cut in strips and dried in the sun |
| Prairies | Flat, open grasslands |
| Lodges | Large earthen houses where Central Plains people lived |
| Southwest Native Americans | Group of Native Americans that lived in what is now the southwest part of the U.S. |
| Pueblos | Anasazi homes made of adobe bricks |
| Old Oraibi | One of our country's oldest villages located on Third Mesa |
| Mesas | Much like plateaus but smaller (Raised with steep sides) |
| adobe | the clay from which adobe bricks are made |
| kivas | were special underground rooms where religious services were held. |
| kachina | spirit who was represented by a masked Native American dancer |
| hogans | Navajo built homes that were cone-shaped shelters built by covering a wooden frame with mud or adobe |
| Woodlands Native Americans | Native Americans that lived in what is now the eastern coast of the U.S. |
| Wigwams | circular huts made by some Algonquian peoples |
| longhouse | Houses made of cedar that were used by coastal tribes that could house several families. They were permanent dwellings. |
| Wampum | small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts |
| Hodenosaunee Trail | a 250 mile path, connected the homelands of five Iroquios people in the 1500's. |
| Clans | groups of related families that have a common identity and a real or legendary common ancestor |
| Deganawida | in the late 1500s five northern Iroquois nations took the advice of a peace seeking man |
| Hiawatha | a native American chieftain who argued for peace with the European settlers (16th century) |
| Iroquois Confederacy | a powerful group of Native Americans in the eastern part of the United States made up of five nations: the Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondoga, and Oneida |
| Compromise | an accommodation in which both sides make concessions |
| Northwest Native Americans | Native Americans that lived in the northwestern part of what is now the U.S. |
| Sitka | a town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906 |
| Technology | the practical application of science to commerce or industry |
| Potlatch | A Native American celebration meant to show wealth and divide property among the people |
| Totem Poles | Large wooden structures made in the Northwest |
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