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Native Americans: Lakota & Pueblo

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  • How did Pueblo Indians add to their homes to make them bigger?
    They added on top of their existing homes and made multi-storied terraced structures accessed with ladders.
  • What were three important crops to the Pueblo Indians?
    Corn, beans and squash
  • People who do not have a permanent home are called
    nomads.
  • Irrigation is when you ___________
    bring water to dry land to grow crops.
  • What was the climate of the Pueblo Indians?
    A dry, hot desert with little to no rain.
  • The Lakota Indians lived on the Great __________.
    Plains
  • What kind of resource is the bison?
    A natural resource
  • By color, which area shows where the Lakota Indians lived in the United States?
    green
  • What were the two primary sources of transportation for the Lakota Indians?
    Walking and horses
  • True or False - The landforms of the Great Plains are rolling hills, prairies and plains.
    True
  • The Indians of the Great Plains used the fat from the bison for cooking and to make soap. What kind of resource is soap?
    A capital resource.
  • What is adobe and how is it made?
    Adobe is water, mud, and straw formed into bricks and baked in the sun.
  • The Lakota Indians were nomads because they needed to follow __________ to survive.
    bison
  • A group of Lakota hunters is what kind of resource?
    A human resource
  • Besides teepees, what else did the Lakota use bison hide for?
    winter robes, moccasins, leggings, dresses and dolls
  • What did the Lakota use bison horns for?
    cups, ladles, spoons and headdresses
  • True or False - It was the women's responsibility to take down and put up the teepee when the Lakota family moved.
    True
  • Winter in the Great Plains is ______ with lots of _________.
    very cold with lots of snow and/or blizzards.
  • Teepees were made of what two items?
    Bison hide and poles most commonly taken from tall trees.