Ch. 1 Vocabulary

To Try hard to achieve a goal

• Harvest

• Mesa

• Totem-pole

• Endeavor

To take and gather crops for use

• Harvest

• Hieroglyph

• Hunter-Gatherer

• Prairie

A type of ancient writing that uses pictures for words

• Hieroglyph

• Potlatch

• Oral History

• Slash-and-burn

An early human that lived by hunting animals and gathering wild plants

• Mesa

• Hunter-Gatherer

• Endeavor

• Totem-Pole

A flat topped hill with steep sides

• Harvest

• Prairie

• Mesa

• Endeavor

Spoken words/stories passed down from generation to generation

• Potlatch

• Oral History

• Totem-Pole

• Harvest

A special feast given by Native Americans in which guests receive gifts

• Potlatch

• Prairie

• Mesa

• Hieroglyph

Flat or gently rolling land covered with grasses and wildflowers

• Endeavor

• Mesa

• Harvest

• Prairie

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

• Slash-and-Burn

• Potlatch

• Hunter-Gatherer

• Oral History

A tall carved pole used to honor important people or special events

• Totem-Pole

• Prairie

• Mesa

• Slash-and-Burn