Thick forests of tall red cedar grow along the rainy Pacific Northwest Coast. Tlingit and Haida families split that cedar into wide boards to build which kind of home?

The Southwest culture region is dry, has few large trees, and has plenty of clay-rich earth. Hopi and Zuni builders used those materials to make the walls of their pueblos out of what?

Lakota and Cheyenne families on the Great Plains followed bison herds across open grassland. Why was a tepee of poles and hides a good home for that way of life?

In the woodlands of the Northeast, Haudenosaunee families lived together in longhouses. Which local resource covered the walls and roof of a longhouse?

The Ojibwe live around the Great Lakes, where wild rice fills shallow lakes. Ojibwe families have long gathered that rice each fall while moving through the water in what?

Zuni and Akimel O'odham farmers in the dry Southwest dug ditches and canals to carry river water to their corn fields. Bringing water to crops this way is called ___.

The open Great Plains had grassland and very few trees, so Lakota families covered their tepees with cedar planks rather than with bison hides.

Haida carvers today still make canoes and carved poles from red cedar, and Haida families have long fished for salmon and halibut. Which culture region are the Haida part of?

Rivers along the Northwest Coast fill with salmon each year. Tlingit and Chinook people built wooden traps and used nets at these rivers mainly in order to do what?

The Dine, also called the Navajo, build hogans from wooden poles packed with earth. In the dry Southwest, what does a thick earth wall do for the people inside?

Mandan and Hidatsa families live along the Missouri River on the northern Plains and built villages of earth lodges there. Besides hunting bison, how did they get most of their food?

Pueblo nations of the Southwest, including the Hopi and the Zuni, still live in their own communities in Arizona and New Mexico today.

Why were rivers important to many Indigenous communities?

In the Pacific Northwest, which natural resource was especially important for food and ceremonies for many Indigenous peoples?

True or False: Indigenous peoples in different regions used the same resources in exactly the same ways.

Which resource was especially important to many Plains nations for food, clothing, tools, and shelter?

What did the Haudenosaunee and many other Eastern Woodlands peoples grow as the "Three Sisters"?

Why did some Pueblo peoples in the Southwest build homes from adobe?

True or False: Water is a natural resource.

Hopi farmers grow corn in a dry land with little rain. How do they plant the seeds to help the corn get water?

Which material did many Pacific Northwest peoples use to build houses and canoes?

True or False: When Ojibwe families harvest wild rice, they try to knock every grain into the canoe so none falls back into the lake.

What does stewardship mean?

In Arctic and subarctic regions, why were animal resources such as caribou, seals, and fish important?

Mandan and Hidatsa farmers planted their gardens on the low land right beside the Missouri River. Why was that land good for farming?

True or False: The environment can influence the kinds of homes people build.

Which resource did many Eastern Woodlands peoples use most for homes, tools, and fires?

What is one reason Indigenous trade networks developed?

Which statement best describes Indigenous peoples of North America?

True or False: Tribal Nations in the United States today have their own governments.

Why was controlled burning used by some Indigenous communities?

Wild rice has been an important food and cultural resource for some Indigenous peoples around the Great Lakes. Where does it grow?

What is a natural resource?

True or False: Northwest Coast peoples such as the Makah got most of their food by hunting bison on the Great Plains.

Which example shows people adapting to a local resource?

Why did some Indigenous peoples move seasonally?

True or False: Land can be important for more than just farming or building.

Which resource helped many Indigenous peoples make clothing before cloth from factories was common?

What is one respectful way to talk about Indigenous resource use?

Why are land and water rights important to many Indigenous nations today?