QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Historic American Indian tribes that lived in or around Ohio - ANS - The Shawnee
- The Potawatomi
- The Peoria
- TheWea
- The Piankashaw
- The Wyandot
- The Miami
- The Seneca
- The Cayuga
- The Delaware
- The Ottawa
- The Kaskaskia
- The Kickapoo
Similarities Between Tribes - ANS - Most were nomadic
- Had hunting and fishing grounds
- Would move tribe after their hunting grounds began to be used up (every spring to as long as
twenty years
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- lived in wigwams or longhouses
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, - work was divided by men, women, and children
- most men hunted
- Women and children grew the three sisters (beans, maize, and squash)
- All helped in building shelter and planting crops
Tribe Differences - ANS - spoke different languages
- Algonquian and Iroquoian
- families were structured differently
- Traditions and stories
- Unique origin stories of how a tribe came to be
- Celebrations
hunting and fishing grounds - ANS A place where tribes hunt wild animals.
wigwams - ANS - Cabins made with a wooden frame of curved poles and large pieces of tree
bark and/or cattail reeds as walls.
- lived here during warm weather
Longhouses - ANS - Houses made to house several tribal families
- Lived here during cold weather
- had camp fires in the middle of the houses
- Smoke holes in ceiling to act as chimneys
Dialects - ANS A person's style of speaking spoken in a region or by a group of people
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Totems - ANS Sacred animals that symbolized a clan or group of familes
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, - Used by the Ojibwe tribe
- Marrying inside of one's totem was very forbidden
matrilineal - ANS When one traces their family through only their mother's side of the family,
rather than through both their mother and father's sides.
- seneca tribe was matrilineal
- Seneca mothers could nominate chiefs and named everyone in their clan
Pow-Wow - ANS - a celebration of Native American culture to pass traditions on to future
generations
- A sacred gathering that began in the 1800s.
- involved dancing and drumming competitions
-members dressed in bright regalia
- Celebrated by Peoria & Potawatomi
Regalia - ANS - Decorative clothing
ALL OF THESE ARE OHIO HISTORIC TRIBES EXCEPT... - ANS Shawnee
Miami
Wea
France (Answer)
A DIALECT IS A WAY OF... - ANS Speaking
BASED ON THE WORD "MATRILINEAL," WHAT DO YOU THINK THE WORD "PATRILINEAL"
MEANS? - ANS - A weapons storage site
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- Tracing their family line through their father rather than their mother (Answer)
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