The Eastern Woodlands and The Plains Region Vocabulary

Walls of tall wooden poles around villages

• wampum

• confederation

• palisades

• longhouses

Long wooden buildings, that could hold up to 50 people.

• wampum

• longhouses

• tepees

• wigwams

Beads cut from seashells--to make beaded designs that showed important decisions, events, or stories. It was also traded or exchanged for goods.

• wampum

• lodges

• confederation

• Iroquois

A group that formed about A.D. 1570 was called the Iroquois League. It was a loose group of governments working together. Members from each of the five tribes were sent to speak for their group. This was called a .

• relay race

• confederation

• palisade

• division of labor

Round, bark-covered shelters.

• tepee

• wigwam

• longhouse

• igloo

What animal was an important natural resource to the Plains people?

• deer

• rattlesnake

• prairie dog

• buffalo

Central Plains people lived in villages made up of large round earthen houses called ______.

• lodges

• longhouses

• tepees

• wigwams

What is a layer of soil held together by the roots or grasses.

• mantle

• sod

• core

• gravel

The Great Plains people built shelters that were easy to move. One such shelter was a cone-shaped tent called a ______.

• lodge

• longhouse

• wigwam

• tepee

People used the poles from the tepee to create a carrier called a ______.

• wampum

• travois