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14 Cards in this Set
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Longhouse |
Iroquois house about 150-200 feet |
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Clan |
A group of related families |
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Teepee |
A circular tent made by stretching buffalo skins over wooden poles
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Adobe |
Sun-dried brick |
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Pueblo |
A multi- storied structure that could house up to 250 people
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Bering Strait |
The Bering Strait is a strait 82 kilometres wide at its narrowest point, between Cape Dezhnev, Chukchi Peninsula, Russia, the easternmost point of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska
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Inuit |
group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska
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Gulf of Mexico |
An ocean basin surrounded by a north American Continent |
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Hopewell |
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 |
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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The Iroquois Confederacy, or Five Nations, was an alliance of five, later six, American Indian tribes
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Plains Indians |
Native American tribes and First Nations band governments who lived on the plains and rolling hills of both 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
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Mesa Verde |
Mesa Verde National Park is a U.S. National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. It is the largest archaeological preserve in the United States
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