The Land and People Before Columbus

try hard to achieve a goal

• endeavor

• harvest

• mesa

• oral history

a type of ancient writing that uses pictures for words

• endeavor

• harvest

• hieroglyph

• oral history

to take and gather such crops as wheat and corn for use

• endeavor

• harvest

• loom

• merchant

a flat top hill with steep sides

• endeavor

• mesa

• loom

• merchant

early humans who lived by gathering wild plants and hunting animals

• endeavor

• harvest

• hunter-gatherer

• merchant

spoken records, including stories that have been passed from one generation to the next

• endeavor

• harvest

• hunter-gatherer

• oral history

a special feast given by American Indians of the Northwest Coast, in which the guests receive gifts

• potlatch

• harvest

• hunter-gatherer

• oral history

flat or gently rolling land covered mostly with grasses and wildflowers

• potlatch

• prairie

• hunter-gatherer

• oral history

a method of clearing land for farming by cutting and burning trees

• potlatch

• prairie

• slash-and-burn

• oral history

a tall carved log used by the American Indians of the Northwest Coast to honor an important person or to mark a special event

• potlatch

• prairie

• slash-and-burn

• totem pole