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  • What is the name of one of the sites where we find evidence of Native Indian groups?
    Murphy site, Dambroski site, Aztalan site, Cahokia site, and Crow Hollow site
  • What group was the FIRST to make pottery?
    Woodland Indians
  • What were wigwams and what were they made out of?
    A type of home that was made from branches, hides, and bark
  • What group were Wisconsin's earliest farmers?
    Oneota Indians
  • What is the definition of the word archaeology?
    The study of how people in the past lived by using the things they left behind
  • What group lived in longhouses?
    Oneota
  • What kinds of tools did many of the Native people groups make?
    Hunting tools, houses, burial mounds, pottery
  • What did the Woodland Indians do to keep their food safe?
    They built storehouses and pits in the ground.
  • What is Ms. Langan's favorite color?
    Blue
  • What is the difference between archaeology and oral tradition?
    Archaeology is digging for artifacts and uses sites/tools, oral tradition is the passing down of stories
  • What is the definition of oral tradition?
    Passing down stories from person to person without having been written down
  • What are some ways that different Native people/Indian tribes communicated with one another?
    Rock art, effigy mounds, carved designs into pottery, tattoos, clothing designs, hairstyles
  • What group built and lived in wigwams?
    Archaic Indians
  • What are longhouses?
    A long, narrow house that the Oneota Indians lived in
  • Why were/are the Mississippian Indians important to learn about and remember?
    They were one of the first people groups. They brought new ideas and trading to WI.
  • Who were Wisconsin's First People?
    Native people/Indian groups
  • What group do we find evidence of at Aztalan?
    Mississippians
  • What group lived in keyhole houses and made burial mounds?
    Woodland
  • What is an example of oral tradition?
    Creation stories or family ancestor stories
  • What is an important thing that archaeologists do to keep track of what they find?
    They use maps and name the sites where it was found
  • What does the word adapt mean?
    to change
  • What is a site?
    A specific digging spot used by archaeologists
  • What are effigy mounds?
    Big piles of dirt that are often shaped like animals or spirits
  • Why did the earliest Wisconsin Indians have to adapt/change their way of life?
    The land and weather changed.
  • What is a mastodon?
    A large, hairy mammal that was related to elephants and mammoths
  • What does the word cultivate mean?
    to grow, plant, and harvest
  • What is pottery?
    Pots and other containers made from clay
  • What is the definition of the word excavate?
    To dig carefully
  • This group were hunters and gatherers. They lived in WI between 10,000 and 6,500 BC and lived in rock shelters.
    Paleo Indians
  • What is Ms. Langan's half birthday?
    January 27th
  • What did the Paleo Indians eat?
    Plants, berries, nuts, deer, elk, mammoths
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