Chapter 1: Native American Groups

Endeavor

• A type of spacecraft
• A journey

• To try hard to achieve a goal

• A mission

Harvest

• To take and gather such crops as wheat and corn for use

• A thing farmers do for a living

• Collecting only needed crops

• Collecting crops and putting them in a silo

Hieroglyph

• Words that equal to symbols.

• Pictures without meaning.

• A type of ancient writing that uses pictures for words.

• A writing system that only Egyptians used.

Hunter-Gatherer

• A method used in Native American tribes.

• Modern day farmers

• Early human who lived by gathering wild plants.

• Early human who lived by gathering wild plants and hunting animals

Mesa

• Farming land

• A flat-topped hill with steep sides

• A mountain

• The Great Plains

Oral History

• Spoken History

• Written History

• History that is assumed

• History of animals

Potlatch

• A latch that secured a pot handle

• A dinner on St. Patrick's Day

• A potluck dinner

• A special feast given by Americans of the Northwest Coast

Prairie

• The Great Plains

• A type of animal

• Flat or gently rolling land covered mostly with grasses or wildflowers

• A TV Show

Slash-And-Burn

• Burning trees after cutting them for campfires

• A method of clearing land for farming

• A wildfire

• Unsafe method of starting a fire

Totem Pole

• A special tree cut down

• Trees that were planted to honor the dead

• A tall tree that is celebrated

• A tall carved log used by Native Americans of the North West Coast to honor an important person or to mark a special event.