Review of the Tribal Regions

1. Review of the Tribal Regions Page 13 in your NOTES packet Miss Springborn

2. Great Plains: Sioux/Cheyenne • Tepees main source of housing • Used the buffalo for food, clothing • Nomadic life: always moving around • No farming, all hunting/gathering • Northwest Coast: • Nez Perce • Mostly fished for food • Very rainy climate • Many rivers to navigate • Made totem poles to honor nature/culture • Northeast: Iroquois • Used forests to build longhouses • Great lakes for fishing • Grew the 3 sisters: corn/beans/squash • Women choose the chief • Matrilineal society • Southwest: Pueblo • Desert area, very hot • Made homes called adobe out of clay/mud • Wore less clothing because of heat • Famous for basket weaving and clay pottery • Southeast: Cherokee • Invented a game called stickball… becomes lacrosse • Relied on canoes/feet to get around • Homes called wigwams made from mud and logs

3. Review Questions: • 1 _______ Tribes like the Nez Perce in this region relied mostly on fishing • 2. _______This region was home to the Iroquois • 3. _______Tepees were the type of home found in this region because they could be easily moved • 4. _______The Cherokee invented lacrosse in this region of the country • 5. _______ People wore little clothing in this area because of the extreme heat • 6. _______ Tribes like the Sioux in this area hunted the Buffalo and were nomadic • 7. _______ This region was the rainiest of the five and had the most rivers • 8. _______ The longhouse was they type of home used by natives in this area • 9. _______ People in area of the country lived in adobe homes made out of clay • 10.________ Homes in this region were called Wig Wams, rounded houses made of mud and logs • 11. _______ Iroquois women in this region choose the men to sit on the council • 12. _______ This region was famous for its clay pottery made by the Pueblo tribe