Native American Unit Vocabulary

A longhouse is

• A home shared by several related Iroquois families

• a cone-shaped tent made out of animal skins used by the Native Americans of the Great Plains

• a wooden post carved with animals or other images to honor ancestors or special events

• a large, level area of grassland with few or no trees

a wooden post carved with animals or other images made to honor ancestors or special events

• totem pole

• culture

• teepee

• canyon

Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people

• culture

• migrate

• hogan

• slavery

A Native American celebration where property is given to the guests

• potlatch

• migrate

• totem pole

• lodge

A dome-shaped Navajo shelter built by covering a log frame with adobe

• hogan

• teepee

• culture

• migrate

Artifacts are

• Objects created by human beings long ago

• beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people

• a way of supplying water to an area

• large, round huts built by Plains Native Americans

A cone-shaped tent made of buffalo skins used by Native Americans of the Great Plains

• teepee

• culture

• nomad

• prairie

To move from one place to another

• migrate

• culture

• longhouse

• empire

A canyon is

• A deep, narrow valley with steep sides

• a dome-shaped Navajo shelter

• objects created by human beings long ago

• moving from one place to another

The location of a place in relation to other land marks

• relative location

• lodge

• confederacy

• irrigation