Indigenous Peoples of North America

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Across
  1. 2. A useful woven object that could be used for cooking, storage, or carrying water
  2. 5. A community containing multistory adobe buildings in the Southwest
  3. 8. The land bridge that once connected Asia and North America
  4. 10. SISTERS Corn, beans, and squash grown together by some Indigenous groups
  5. 11. A group’s way of life, including its customs, beliefs, and practices
  6. 12. A raised structure built from earth in the Southeast
  7. 13. The fish that was especially important to Indigenous peoples of the Plateau
  8. 16. A tree used by Northwest Coast peoples to construct houses, roof shingles, and canoes
  9. 18. A shelter that some Inuit communities constructed from hard-packed snow
  10. 19. A temporary tent used by Inuit families while following caribou
  11. 20. The animal that provided Great Plains peoples with food, clothing, shelter, and tools
  12. 22. A large home made from logs and bark in the Eastern Woodlands
  13. 23. Everything surrounding people, including land, water, plants, and animals
Down
  1. 1. A cutting and shaping tool commonly made with a stone blade
  2. 3. An important California food that grows on oak trees
  3. 4. A portable home used by some Great Plains peoples as they followed animal herds
  4. 6. A desert plant common in the Great Basin
  5. 7. To move from one place to another
  6. 9. A cold Arctic climate zone with no trees
  7. 14. Something found in nature that people can use
  8. 15. A system of ditches used to carry water from streams to fields
  9. 16. The large Mississippian city located near modern-day St. Louis
  10. 17. REGION An area where Indigenous groups developed some similar ways of life
  11. 21. A warm piece of clothing made from dozens of rabbit hides