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18 Cards in this Set
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totem pole
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Carved logs made by Pacific Northwest groups that are painted with symbols.
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potlatch
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Special feasts at when guests not the hosts receive gifts.
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migrate
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to move. (example: Navajo moved to northern New Mexico by the late 1200s.
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hogans
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single family dome shaped homes made with log or stick frames covered with mud or sod.
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Cahuilla and Paiute
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Used desert plants (roots and cactus berries) for food. Grew crops using irrigation and also used lakes to water fields of maize, squash, beans and melons.
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Intuit
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Lived in Alaska and found ways to live in the bitterly cold Arctic. Kept warm by building pit houses made of stone and covered with earth. Hunted walruses, seals, fish and whales. Used animal skins for clothing and turned animals bones into tools and weapons.
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Tlingit
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Settled in the Pacific Northwest and got most of their food and goods from the sea.
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Why did the Tlingit travel by canoe?
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To trade their surplus / extra goods with other groups along the coast. This trade system made the Tlingit wealthy.
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What did the North Pacific Current do?
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It kept the weather mild and wet for the Tlingit. These weather conditions made it easy to get food and wood.
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What did the Tlingit do with their fee time?
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Become skilled craftworkers. They made sturdy baskets, weaved colorful blankets and built large wooden plank houses.
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Pueblos
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Used a method of dry farming to farm in the desert.
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Dry Farming
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Uses tiny dams and canals to direct water to beans, squash and cotton crops.
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What were the Pueblos homes called and made out of?
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Pueblos. Adobe. They protected the Pueblos from extreme heat and cold and looked like apartment buildings.
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The Pueblo are known for the _________________ and _____________ jewelry.
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Silver and Turquoise
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Hopi and Zuni
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Pueblo groups
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Navajo
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Hunter-gatherers in parts of the present day Alaska and Canada.The largest non-Pueblo people in the Southwest.
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Four Corners
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Where the states of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet.
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hozho
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Navajo belief in a balance to Earth. The term means "walking in beauty".
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