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Coastal Tribes Desert Tribes (the Mojaves) Native Californians Central Valley & Mountain Tribes Vocabulary 10 Points 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Points 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Points 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points
A religious leader
Who is a shaman?
An idea or way of doing something that has been handed down over time.
What is a tradition?
To work at one kind of job that you do well
What is to specialize?
Any object made by people in the past.
What is an artifact?
Term used to describe Native American groups that share the same language or have the same leaders
What is tribe?
These 2 tribes lived in rectangular wooden plank houses.
Who are the Yuroks and the Hoopas?
These 2 foods were most important to Coastal tribes.
What are salmon and acorns?
This tribe allowed individuals to own land for themselves.
Who are the Yuroks?
This tribe had a government system led by a wot.
Who are the Chumash?
Places where the Hoopa men gathered to think & pray.
What are sweat lodges?
The Maidus’ large, mound-shaped shelters built of wood & covered with dirt.
What are earth lodges?
To get news to other Yokut villages, this person carried the messages.
Who is the runner?
This tribe used games to teach their children important life skills.
Who are the Miwoks?
In this tribe, the women built the houses.
Who are the Yokuts?
This tribe used a granary for storing their acorns.
Who are the Maidus?
The Mojaves developed this, giving them most of their food.
What is agriculture?
The Mojaves traveled long distances to trade with this tribe.
Who are the Chumash?
The reason the Mojave had to also hunt and gather.
What is scarce food sources?
The type of storage the Mojave used.
What is clay pottery?
The 3 main water sources of the Mojaves
What are the Colorado River, desert springs, & cacti/yucca?
The Yuroks used these to catch salmon.
What are weirs?
How Native Californians explained animals, plants, & other physical features around them.
What are through legends?
Most tribes had this in place to make it easier for the village to meet its needs
What is a division of labor?
Two ways in which Native Californians were different.
What is: language, culture, religion, and ecomony ?
Two ways Native Californians were alike.
What are: wasted little, respected all living things, and told legends?
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Identify one natural resource from each region and tell how the Native Californians used it.