The First Americans
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ESLwithMrsE on November 17, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 shelters | homes, dwellings |
| native | the country, language etc. you are born with |
| native Americans | the first people who lived in North and South America |
| tribe | a group of people, like a nation, but smaller, who share a culture and a language, usually used for native Americans and African peoples |
| bark | the outside layer (skin) of a tree |
| branch | a small limb, extension, of a tree |
| clay | a type of sticky soil that is used for making pots and bricks |
| log | a cut piece of a tree trunk, limb or branch |
| pole | long post made of wood or metal |
| tepee | a native American dwelling made of poles and buffalo skins |
| long house | a dwelling made of branches and covered with bark, up to 60 feet long |
| wigwam | a round dwelling made of branches and bark |
| hogan | a dwelling made of logs with a bark or straw roof |
| resources | materials found in nature that people use to make things |
| hoof | the hard foot of a horse, cow, buffalo, etc. |
| horn | the hard pointed part that grows on the heads of some animals |
| fly swatter | a tool for hitting and killing flies |
| headdress | decorated head coverings worn by native Americans, usually made of buffalo skin and feathers |
| arrowhead | a sharpened bone or stone that is attached to a stick to be shot as an arrow |
| pottery | pots, dishes and cups made of clay |
| tools | things that you use to make other things |
| weapons | things we use to protect ourselves, or to kill or hurt other people or animals |
| ancient | really old |
| archaeologist | scientists who study how people lived in the past by digging up and studying the things people left behind |
| crafts | things made by people by hand |
| artifacts | things made by people that archaeologists use to try to imagine how they lived long ago |
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