Native American Crossword Puzzle (Saksham, Kriti, Ankita)

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  1. 5. They were exceptional farmers and used irrigation for their crops. These people were polytheistic and are known for their temples.
  2. 8. Were known for their art and architecture, and were both absorbed on the enhancement of wood. This indigenous group produced totem poles.
  3. 10. In the late 1400s, this tribe ruled an empire of more than 12,000,00 people in Peru. They enforced religion with human sacrifices.
  4. 13. The Hopewell were named after this person and he owned the excavation site which was key to understanding Hopewell culture.
  5. 15. Vast stretches of land located near the center of North America. Buffalos roamed this place and were very useful to the people who live on it.
  6. 16. Another word for corn, grown by many native americans.
  7. 18. This tribe lived in the Arctic region. They have a high percentage of type B blood. Their diet incorporates fish, sea mammals and land animals.
  8. 20. An ancient land bridge.
  9. 22. A tribe that lived in the Southern United States, known for their farmers. The women farmed while the men hunted.
  10. 23. The best Social Studies Teacher!
  11. 25. A socially divided tribe that colonized the Pacific coastline, Western Canada, and the seaward islet of southern Alaska. . They had similar cultural traditions of the Haida.
  12. 26. The tribe who believed their ancestors were the Anasazi. The lived and herded sheep in Arizona.
  13. 28. A socially divided tribe who populated islands in Lake Texcoco. This tribe engaged in trade as well as evolved pictorial writing.
  14. 30. A tribe that lived in the Pacific Northwest. Their culture was known for immense studies conducted by the scholar Fraz Boas.
  15. 31. Built by the Adena and Hopewell, they were mounds of dirt shaped as animals.
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  1. 1. It is believed to be a guardian or ancestor that watches over the people. It is a work of art made out of wood.
  2. 2. Known as the Ancestral Pueblo, this tribe lived in caves and pithouses. They built an irrigation system and enormous cliff dwellings.
  3. 3. Also known as Western Eskimo, they are a group of indigenous people who lived on The Diomede Island, The Saint Lawrence Islands, and Siberia.
  4. 4. Was one of the pioneers of anthropology and wrote guides about fishing and woodworking for the Kwaktikul.
  5. 6. The Inuit built these as homes during the winter. They were temporary dwellings made of packed snow.
  6. 7. A tribe who spoke Muskogean. They were fractionated into two geographic groups and lived in towns and their houses were made of wattle. They had notable traditional religious ceremonies,
  7. 9. The area in southern U.S. which needed irrigation to survive
  8. 11. An archipelago that has 57 volcanoes.
  9. 12. Native Americans who lived in cone-shaped houses mainly in Southern Ohio alongside rivers.
  10. 14. A large group of territories, typically ruled by a tyrant.
  11. 17. Also known as the Hodenosaunee. The term means,”people of the longhouse” They hunted, fished, assorted wild food, and raised crops such as corn, beans, and squash.
  12. 19. Used by the Inuit to gash sea prey.
  13. 21. Prehistoric Native Americans who were both farmers and hunters. They built mounds in various designs.
  14. 24. An advanced form of culture.
  15. 27. A tribe who lived in the southwest U.S. mainly in New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. They had many religious rituals and were known for their art.
  16. 29. Nomadic hunter-gatherers who traveled the Bering Strait during the Ice Age.