Native American Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 4. to water crops by bringing in water from pipes, canals, sprinklers, or other man-made means, rather than relying on rainfall alone.
  2. 5. the largest of six Native American nations which comprised the Iroquois Confederacy or Six Nations
  3. 8. the Native American people living mainly in southern Ohio from approximately 200 BCE to 500 CE.
  4. 9. also known as Ayenwathaaa or Aiionwatha
  5. 10. world-renowned for their silver and turquoise jewelry and hand-woven rugs.
  6. 13. people were prehistoric Native Americans who lived in current-day southern Ohio
  7. 15. the Central American cereal plant that yields large grains set in rows on a cob; corn.
  8. 16. one of the original five constituent nations of the Iroquois Confederacy in northeast North America.
  9. 18. the group of Native Americans originally from a village south of Cuzco
  10. 19. North American Indians who traditionally lived in what is now British Columbia, Canada, along the shores of the waterways between Vancouver Island and the mainland.
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  1. 1. People who migrated from Asia to North and South America between 15,000 to 12,000 years ago.
  2. 2. one of the indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States.
  3. 3. the Mexican people migrated into Central Mexico probably in about the 1100s.
  4. 4. the type of dome-shaped shelter built from blocks of solid snow
  5. 6. made their home in what became New York colony
  6. 7. the Native American people who have lived in the Arctic region for over 2,000 years.
  7. 8. indigenous group who have traditionally occupied Haida Gwaii, an archipelago just off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, for at least 12,500 years.
  8. 9. the Native American people believed to be descended from the Ancestral Pueblos.
  9. 11. means “ancient enemy.”
  10. 12. The land bridge appeared, connecting Asia and North America.
  11. 14. the shortage of rainfall in a region may cause dry conditions. If the shortage continues for a long time, drought results
  12. 17. the Empire rose in what is now Mexico and Central America.