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14 Cards in this Set
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Longhouse |
A traditional home of the Iroquois. |
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Clan |
A group of families. |
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Tepee |
A portable tent made of skins or canvas and a frame of poles, used by Indians of the Plains and Great Lake Regions. |
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Adobe |
A building constructed of sun dried clay bricks. |
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Pueblo |
An Indian village. |
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Bering Strait |
A strait between Alaska and the Russian Federation connecting the Bering sea and arctic ocean 36 miles wide. |
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Inuit |
A member of the Eskimo people. |
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Gulf of Mexico |
Part of the Atlantic surrounded by the U.S., Cuba, and Mexico. |
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Hopewell |
Some native Americans built up burial mounds. |
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Cahokia |
An old Indian city that thrived before Europeans came to the Americas. |
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Iroquois |
Six tribes the Mohawks, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Tuscarora. They lived in the North East part of the Easrtern woodlands. |
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Plains Indians |
Any of the Indians that lived on the Great Plains. |
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Anasazi |
An American Indian people who inhabited and flourished in the southwest between 200 BC and 1500 AD |
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Mesa Verde |
A high plateau in SW Colorado where cliff dwellings; the remains of Prehistoric cliff dwellings inhabited by the Pueblo Indians. |