Early People Village Farmers Historic Tribes Nomadic vs. Sedentary Read Kansas

Question The tribe the state of Kansas is named after

Answer 1 – 10 What is the Kansa tribe “People of the South Wind”

Question The earliest inhabitants of Kansas had domesticated, or tamed this animal

Answer 1 – 20 What are dogs

Question The bow and arrow replaced This weapon

Answer 1 – 30 What is the atlatl

Question A change in behavior in response to new or modified surroundings

Answer 1 – 40 What is adaptation

Question The spoken tradition of a people’s cultural history and ancestry

Answer 1 – 50 What is oral tradition

Question One important crop to the earliest village farmers

Answer 2 – 10 What is corn Beans, squash, pumpkins, sunflowers

Question Something made or used by people in the past

Answer 2 – 20 What is an artifact

Question The act of moving from one land or country to settle in another place

Answer 2 – 30 Migration

Question Name one way the environment changed during the earliest climate change

Answer 2 – 40 What is became hotter Drier Harsh on plants and animals Some plants and animals became extinct

Question Name one indication that the early village farmers were successful

Answer 2 – 50 What are storage pits Evidence of trash Trade

Question Animal acquired from the Spanish, nicknamed “Big Dogs”

Answer 3 – 10 What are horses

Question Collective name of the Native American tribes who lived in Kansas and surrounding area

Answer 3 – 20 What are the Plains Indians

Question The term “historic” means that we have evidence of their lives through this

Answer 3 – 30 What is written documents

Question The first written records from Kansas come from this man’s expedition

Answer 3 – 40 Who was Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

Question Name one example of a sedentary tribe and one nomadic tribe that lived in the Kansas region

Answer 3 – 50 Who are: Sedentary- Wichita, Kansa, Osage, Pawnee Nomadic-Comanche, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne

Question This was used as temporary housing for sedentary tribes and even more often for nomadic tribes when hunting buffalo

Answer 4 – 10 What is a tipi

Question A frame hung between trailing poles used to transport tipis and pulled by a dog or horse

Answer 4 – 20 What is a travois

Question This trail was used by the Osage when hunting buffalo. It consisted of a series of structures one day’s travel apart from each other

Answer 4 – 30 What is the Black Dog Trail

Question Describe the difference between nomadic and sedentary tribes

Answer 4 – 40 Nomadic- to move from place to place Sedentary- to live in one place for months or years at a time

Question Who generally constructed the lodges in the Wichita tribe? OR Who generally constructed the lodges in the Pawnee tribe?

Answer 4 – 50 Wichita- Women and children Pawnee- community

Question Something made or written by someone who was there at the time; an original record

Answer 5 – 10 What is a primary source (Letter, journal, diary, picture, speech, etc.)

Question In archaeology, the arrangement of artifacts in a sequence relative to one another

Answer 5 – 20 Relative Dating

Question The determination of the age of an object through radiocarbon dating

Answer 5 – 30 What is absolute dating

Question Who was Mr. Sibley and who did he work for?

Answer 5 – 40 Mr. Sibley was an Indian agent who worked for the U.S. government

Question Who was Satanta and what was his speech about?

Answer 5 – 50 Satanta was a Kiowa chief who spoke at the Medicine Lodge negotiations. He was against the U.S. Government forcing his tribe off their land onto reservations.