American Indians of Colorado

Match the following

• arroyo

• dried meat

• sinew

• tendon which fastens the muscle to the bone in an animal

• tipi

• a type of tent shaped like an upside down cone covered with animal hides which is easily moved

• jerky

• a dry gully

• mano and metate

• rocks used to grind or crush food

Match the following

• petroglyph

• pictures painted or pecked into the rocks by the Indians

• sign language

• a lean-to type shelter used by the Ute Indians sometimes used a war lodges

• wickiup

• symbols that were painted on rocks

• pictograph

• a way of talking by using hands and arms to make signs

• rock art

• symbols that were scratched into rocks

Match the following

• legends

• largest and oldest tribe living in CO when European explorers first came to CO; lived on the western slope of the Rockies

• travois

• two long poles tied together and pulled by a dog or horse. A skin was placed between the poles and things were carried on it.

• Nooch or Nunche

• means "people of the mountains"

• Eutaw or Yuta

• stories about people or animals ;often used to explain why things happened

• Ute Indians

• Ute indians called themselves this; means "the people"

Match the following

• Shinny

• musical instruments that sounds like bears growling

• Bear Dance

• game sometimes played by Ute women and used a curved stick & a ball

• nomadic

• board used to carry Indian babies

• cradleboard

• Ute dance that symbolized the beginning of new life in spring

• moraches

• to move around a lot in search of food

Match the following

• Arapaho

• 1st Indian tribe to move onto the eastern plains of CO; 1 of 3 tribes living in CO when European explorers 1st came

• Robe Quillers Society

• Crow Indian word that means "people with many tattoos"

• Tsistsistas

• name the Cheyenne called themselves & means "the beautiful people"

• Alappaaho

• Indian tribe that lived in the Eastern plains of CO ; 1 of 3 tribes living in CO when European explorers 1st came

• Cheyenne

• women who had made 30 or more pieces of clothing & were very good at doing quillwork could become mimbers of thies