Native Americans on the Plains

Chapter 4 Review

1. Nomadic tribes moved from place to place.

2. The travios was used to help move things.

3. The sacred bundle held two ears of corn and was used by the Pawnee Indians.

4. The parfleche was used to carry food.

5. Moccasins are soft leather slippers or shoes.

6. The women were responsible for the harvesting of crops.

7. The Pawnee use the stars as their calendar.

8. The Omaha, Pawnee, Ponca, and Otoe-Missouri live in earthlodges.

9. The farming Native American tribes planted crops.

10.The quiver was used for carrying arrows.

11.Corn was very important to the Pawnee Indians.

12.The women were responsible for planting the seeds.

13.Cornmeal is made from ground up corn.

14.The buffalo were used to make tipi covers, clothes, eating, and farming tools.

15.The Lakota, Arapaho, and Cheyenne Indians lived in tipis.

16.Be able to describe the Native American tipi.– Was portable– The women were responsible to set up and take

down– The poles came together at the top– Takes at least 12 buffalo hides to cover a tipi– The buffalo hides were sew together

17.Be able to describe the earthlodge.– Large enough for 20 to 40 people.– Sometimes many families lived in them.– Storage pit inside to hold food.– Cool in the summer and warm in the winter.– Women were in charge of building the

earthlodges.– The posts of the earthlodges were sometimes

covered by dirt.

18.Be able to describe the wigwam.– Were made from bark– Were portable– The women were in charge– Looked like a hut

19.Be able to describe the importance of the Native American legends.– Helped to carry on their history.– Was a time for laughing, listening, and being close.– Some legends told why the stars were in the sky

and the wolf howled at the moon.– Children learned about their world.

20.Describe the Native American hunts – before, during, and after.

Before– The women packed the food.– The men made sure the horses were fed and packed

the arrows.– The children packed the materials.During– The women cooked breakfast.– Cut up the buffalo.– Found new hunting ground.– Children guarded the horses.

After• The farming tribes would return and either plant or

harvest crops depending on the time of year.• The nomadic tribes followed the buffalo north.