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Chinooks and Makahs |
The Indian peoples who got most of their food from the rivers and oceans close to their home were the |
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They needed a language to make trade easier |
Why did the Chinooks develop a special language |
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to make totem poles |
The Makahs did not use parts of the whales |
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eat when there was a drought |
Pueblo family members needed to store surplus food so they could |
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They formed a confederation |
How did the Iroquois stop the fighting among neighboring tribes? |
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Aztecs |
The Indian people who adopted ideas from the Mayas and went on to build a large empire were the |
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Clan |
A _________ is a group of families that are related to one another |
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barter |
People went to the Dalles from all over the Northwest to exchange goods, or ___________________ |
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Totem pole |
The carved post that shows the history of a family is a ______________ |
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Kachinas |
________________ are the guardian spirits of the Hopis |
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Buffalo |
The Plains Indians made clothes, tools, weapons, and food from the _____________ they hunted. |
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confederation |
A ____________ is a loose group of governments |
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slavery |
Holding people against their will and making them carry out orders is called _____________ |
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pit house (chinook) |
a house built partly over a hole dug in the ground |
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Longhouse (Iroquois) |
a hose made of elm bark with large doors at each end; home for several families |
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hogan (Navajo) |
a cone-shaped house made of a log frame coered by mud or grass |
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pueblo (Hopi) |
an adobe building with rooms on top of and next to one another; home for many families |
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tepee (Mandan) |
a cone shape house made of poles and covered with buffalo skin |
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