This scavenger hunt will help you learn about Native Americans from these regions:
- Eastern Woodlands
- Plains
- Southwest
- Northwest
Click the gray arrow to open a Native American Web site created by a third grade class in Germantown, Illinois. It will open in a new window. When you are done finding the answers, close the window.
Click on the arrow to answer the next question.
1. Why do we call the Indian people Native Americans?
2. What is a desert ? (describe it from the information you read.)
3. Name 3 other Southwest tribes besides the Navajo.
4.What kind of home did the Northwest Indians live in?
What was outside of each home?
Now scroll down to the Plains Indians.
5.Describe the teepee that the Plains Indians lived in.
Continue down to the Eastern Woodlands Indians.
6. Describe the longhouse that these tribes lived in.
7.Describe a totem pole.
8. What is a potlatch?
9. What did the Northwest Indians use instead of pottery?
10.What did the buffalo provide the Plains Indians with?
11. Why did the Plains Indians need a teepee that could easily be moved?
12.What was the skin of the buffalo used for?
13. The Plains Indians used every part of the buffalo. Tell 2 of these uses besides the meat and skin.
14. What was a PowWow?
15.How was a wigwam made?
16. What is buckskin and how was it used?
17. Many Indians farmed the "Three Sisters" What were these crops?
18. What was wampum?
Scroll below the map to look at a chart about all of the tribes. You can click on any area to learn more.19. Tell another interesting fact that you learned about one of the tribes in this scavenger hunt.
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