Flashcard: Native Americans: People of the Forest

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The Ojibwa tribe lives in the region scientists call what? Options: the Plains, the Great Basin, the Eastern Woodlands, the Southwest Swamplands

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the Eastern Woodlands

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What use did Native Americans find for natural resources?

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They made their houses with them, found ways to make clothing with them, and constructed weapons with them.

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What often happened when Native Americans had encounters with other tribes?

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they were often full of danger

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Which of the following BEST shows how the Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands live today? They hold powwows to honor the old ways of their people.

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They hold powwows to honor the old ways of their people.

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It is said that the Great Spirit gave the birch tree to Native Americans for what purpose?

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so they would never have to do without food

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How did Native American children use racquets and a ball?

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to play lacrosse

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How did MOST scientists think the first people arrived in North America?

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over a northern land bridge

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Although Native American women did a great deal of the work, Native American men were responsible for which of the following? cooking dinner, building wigwams, hunting, creating fire

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hunting

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What was the result of Native Americans' meetings with Europeans?

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they led to the conquest of all Native American tribes

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Feeling its bark kills the birch tree

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False