Unit 2 Native American in NY Vocabulary Words

an object made by people who lived in the past

• clan

• heritage

• colony

• artifact

An event to honor the importance of something often with music, dancing and prayer

• ceremony

• clan

• generation

• confederacy

a group of Native American families who share the same ancestor

• Clan

• constitution

• colony

• generation

A group of people who join together to help each other.

• confederacy

• artifact

• ceremony

• heritage

A system of basic rules to govern a state or nation

• constitution

• colony

• heritage

• clan

A settlement made by people who leave their own country to settle in another land

• generation

• colony

• confederacy

• clan

People in a family who are about the same age. Parents are one generation, their children are another.

• artifact

• clan

• heritage

• generation

The history and traditions that a group of people share

• ceremony

• heritage

• colony

• clan

Beads made from seashells and used by Native Americans to make belts that recorded history or honored special events.

• longhouse

• wampum

• council

• Algonquian

A large Native American house that had frame made of trees covered with bark

• longhouse

• wampum

• sachems

• permanent