Indian Tribes Quiz

Which type of Indian tribes relied on farming and lived in one location?

• Nomadic Indian tribes

• Sedentary Indian tribes

• Cheyenne tribes

• Comanche tribes

Which tribes relied on the buffalo and moved to find resources?

• Sedentary Indian tribes

• Nomadic Indian tribes

• Kansa tribes

• Wichita tribes

The four sedentary Indian tribes of Kansas are...

• Wichita

• Arapahoe

• Kansa

• Osage

• Pawnee

The four Nomadic tribes of Kansas are...

• Osage

• Kiowa-Apache

• Arapaho

• Comanche

• Cheyenne

What is a travois?

• A type of house

• A type of weapon

• Two long poles used to transport goods

• A type of clothing

Nomadic tribes lived in..

• beehive-shaped grass lodges

• cone-shaped homes made with animal skins over wooden poles called tipis

• earth lodges with large doors to allow horses inside

• longhouses covered with bark

• long wood-framed lodges covered by cattail stems, bark, hides and woven grass mats.

What FOUR types of homes did sedentary tribes of Eastern Kansas live in?

• Tipis

• Grass lodges

• earth lodges

• long houses covered in bark

• long-wood framed lodges

Which one of the following best describes tribes with a nomadic lifestyle?

• tribes had no permanent home, travels from place to place in search of food and resources

• tribe members spend all their time sleeping outside

• tribes live in permanent homes and rely heavily on farming.

• tribes spend the majority of time fighting over territory.

The Osage tribe used this political structure to govern themselves...

• The New York Times

• The Black Dog Trail

• Society of Little Old Men

• Summer and Winter Counts

Some sedentary tribes such as the Pawnee and Wichita used tipis as temporary homes when they would hunt buffalo.

• True

• False