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13 Cards in this Set
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Longhouse |
the traditional dwelling of the Iroquois and other North American Indians.
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Clan |
a group of close-knit and interrelated families
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Tepee |
a portable conical tent made of skins, cloth, or canvas on a frame of poles, used by American Indians of the Plains and Great Lakes regions.
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Pueblo |
an American Indian settlement of the southwestern US, especially one consisting of multistoried adobe houses built by the Pueblo people.
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Bering Strait |
a strait between Alaska and the Russian Federation in Asia, connecting theBering Sea and the Arctic Ocean.
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Inuit |
a member of an indigenous people of northern Canada and parts of Greenland and Alaska.
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Gulf of Mexico |
The Gulf of Mexico is an ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba.
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Hopewell |
The hopewell tradition describes the common aspects of the Native American culture that flourished along rivers in the northeastern and midwestern United States from 200 BCE to 500 CE.
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Cahokia |
a group of very large prehistoric Indian earthworks in southwestern Illinois, consisting of mounds with flat tops that supported temples and other structures of mud and thatch
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Iroquois |
a member of a former confederacy of North American Indian peoples originally comprising the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca peoples and later on tuscarora
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Plains Indians |
a member of any of various North American Indian peoples who formerly inhabited the Great Plains.
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Anasazi |
a member of an ancient American Indian people of the southwestern US, who flourished between circa 200 BC and AD 1500. The earliest phase of their culture, typified by pit dwellings, is known as the Basket Maker period; the present day Pueblo culture developed from a later stage
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Mesa Verde |
a high plateau in SW Colorado: remains of numerous prehistoric cliff dwellings, inhabited by the Pueblo Indians
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