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Longhouses |
Buildings usually 20 feet wide and 20 feet high that housed Iroquois people. Were usually surrounded by a wooden fences for protection. |
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Clan |
A group of related families.
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Tepee |
Circular tents made from wooden poles with buffalo skin stretched around them.
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Adobe |
A form of sun dried bricks used to build pueblos.
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Pueblo |
A multistory structure that housed many people. Made by the Anasazi. |
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Bering Strait |
A strait between Asia (Russia) and North America (Alaska) that became a land bridge during an ice age, and allowed people to cross over.
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Inuit |
A group of people who moved into North America from Asia. Very skilled to survive harsh weather. |
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Gulf of Mexico |
A gulf south east of modern U.S. and east of modern Mexico. |
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Hopewell |
A peoples in the Eastern woodlands and Ohio River valley that were know as the Mound Builders for their earth mounds that they used for ceremonies and tombs. |
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Cahokia |
A site near the modern day city of East St. Louis, Illinois.
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Iroquois |
A group of peoples that lived northeast of the Mississippian culture and lived in longhouses.
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Plains Indians |
A group of peoples west of the Mississippi river basin.
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Anasazi |
A group of people in The south west (New Mexico, Utah, Arizona and Colorado) that had a farming society.
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Mesa Verde |
A place where a large community of Anasazi settled in southern Colorado. |
