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Compare housing, food, and clothing across Indigenous culture regions and explain the environmental reasons behind each.
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Thick rain forests grow along the Pacific Northwest coast. Nations such as the Tlingit and Haida built large plank houses there. Which local resource were those planks split from?

Lakota families on the Great Plains moved camp many times a year to follow the herds they hunted. Which home suited that way of life?

Pueblo peoples in the dry Southwest, such as the people of Taos Pueblo, built many-story village homes of adobe. What is adobe made from?

Inuit families live in the Arctic, where winters are long and cold. What did Inuit sewers use to make warm, waterproof winter clothing?

Chinook and Haida homelands lie where cold rivers run out of the coastal forest into the Pacific Ocean. Which food has been the main part of the diet for those nations?
Haudenosaunee longhouses in the Northeast woodlands sheltered several related families under one roof. Which local material covered the wooden frame of a longhouse?
Hopi and Zuni farmers in the Southwest grew cotton in their fields. What did they make from that cotton?
Lakota families on the Great Plains relied on one large animal for many of their needs. Which resource supplied both their clothing and much of their food?
Inuit hunters traveled across the Arctic snow and sea ice in winter. What did they build for shelter on these trips?
Indigenous nations such as the Navajo Nation and the Wampanoag still exist today and run their own governments.
Cherokee towns in the Southeast sat among thick forests and rich river bottom land. Which pair of foods fit that homeland?

Mandan villagers built large, round, dome-shaped homes in permanent villages above the Missouri River. What were these Mandan homes called?
Why did traditional Indigenous homes differ from region to region?

When Plains families moved camp, how did they carry their tipi poles and covers?

Seminole families in the hot, wet swamps of Florida built homes called chickees. How was a chickee built?
A traditional Haudenosaunee longhouse was often used by which group?

Why were adobe and pueblo-style homes common in parts of the Southwest?

In winter, Inuit hunters waited beside breathing holes in the sea ice. Which animal were they hunting?

All Indigenous nations traditionally lived in tipis.
Which three crops are often called the Three Sisters?
Plains peoples used nearly every part of the bison. What did they make from bison bones?
Northwest Coast families caught huge numbers of salmon each year. How did they keep the fish to eat in winter?
Which food was important to some Indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes region?
Traditional clothing materials often came from which source?

Some Inuit women wore an amauti, a parka with a large pouch in the back of the hood. What was the pouch for?

What are moccasins?
What is regalia in many Indigenous communities?
Indigenous people today only wear traditional clothing and never wear modern clothing.
Plains peoples pounded dried bison meat with fat and berries to make a long-lasting travel food. What was this food called?

Ancestral Pueblo people built homes into the cliff walls at Mesa Verde. Which local material did they use for the walls?

In parts of the Southwest, which foods were commonly grown by Indigenous farmers?

How did cedar help some Northwest Coast peoples beyond building houses?

What was a wetu, used by some Wampanoag and other Northeastern peoples?

Why did some communities use portable homes at certain times of year?

Which foods would coastal Indigenous communities often be able to gather or catch?
What could designs on traditional clothing sometimes show?

Inuit families in the Arctic traditionally grew corn, beans, and squash for food.
Why did some Indigenous groups have different homes for different seasons?

Which list shows different ways Indigenous peoples traditionally got food?
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