Chapter 11 Section 1

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Longhouse

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1. the tradition dwelling of the Iroquois and other North American Indians

2. a large communal village house in parts of Malaysia and Indonesia.

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Clan

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1. a family; group of people with the same interest

2. a group of close-knit and interrelated families (especially associated with families in the Scottish Highlands).

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Teppee

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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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Adobe

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1. a kind of clay used as a building material, typically in the form of sun-dried bricks.

2. a building constructed using clay or bricks

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Pueblo

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Pueblos are modern and old communities of Native Americans in the Southwestern United States.

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Bering Strait

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a strait between Alaska and the Russian Federation in Asia, connecting theBering Sea and the Arctic Ocean.

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Inuit

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Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska. Inuit is a plural noun; the singular is Inuk. The Inuit languages are classified in the Eskimo-Aleut family.

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Gulf of Mexico

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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

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The Hopewell tradition (also called the Hopewellculture) 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

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Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is located on the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city situated directly across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis, Missouri.

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Iroquois

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a member of a former confederacy of North American Indian peoples originally comprising the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca peoples (known as the Five Nations), and later including also the Tuscarora (thus forming the Six Nations).

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Plains Indians

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a member of any of various North American Indian peoples who formerly inhabited the Great Plains.

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Anasazi

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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

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A plateau of southwestern Colorado west of the San Juan Mountains. Its canyons contain numerous Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings,including Cliff Palace.