- adobe: brick house
- allies: friends who support one another
- anthropologists: study and compare people to learn how they lived
- archeogists: use remains of material that they find to study past people
- artifacts: tools, weapons, and other objects made by people
- bands: small groups made up of a few families
- confederacies: alliances between different groups
- crop rotation: a system of growing different crops
- hides: animal skins
- hunter-gathers: people who hunt animals and gather wild plants for food
- hunting grounds: areas where traditionally hunted for food
- maize: a type of corn
- matrilineal: families traced threw mothers side
- mitotes: all-night celebrations
- nomads: group of people who move from place to place
- precontact: period of time before Europeans arrived in the americas
- prehistory: the time before written records
- teepees: movable houses made from animal hides sretched over long poles
- wigwams: circular huts