People of Americas

3. "Book of the Community"
4. among North American Indian peoples of the northwest coast) an opulent ceremonial feast at which possessions are given away or destroyed to display wealth or enhance prestige.
6. a hieroglyphic character or symbol; a pictograph.
8. an ancient manuscript text in book form.
10. a large family of languages spoken in Central America and Mexico, of which the chief members are Maya, Quiché, and Tzeltal.
12. member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru
14. comprises the modern day countries of northern Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, and central to southern Mexico.
16. a game traditionally associated with con men, in which the dealer shows the player three cards then moves them around face-down, the player being obliged to pick the specified card from among the three.
17. an ancient Mayan city occupied c200 b.c. to a.d. 900
19. a pre-Inca culture that flourished on the northern coast of Peru in the 1st to 7th centuries AD.

1. a member of a former confederacy of six North American peoples (Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Tuscarora) who lived mainly in southern Ontario and Quebec and northern New York State.
2. ˈnäskə : of or relating to a culture of the coast of southern Peru dating from about 2000 b.c. and characterized by a thin hard coiled pottery painted in many brilliant colors and conventionalized symbolic design, by expert weaving, and by irrigated agriculture in an area now desert.
5. a people living in the same general area as the prehistoric Olmec during the 15th and 16th centuries.
7. it is most likely the area through which man first entered the western hemisphere
9. a Central American cereal plant that yields large grains set in rows on a cob; corn.
11. The Chavín culture is an extinct, pre-Columbian civilization, named for Chavín de Huántar, the principal archaeological site at which its artifacts have been found.
13. The term is Navajo in origin, and means “ancient enemy.”
15. member of an indigenous people that flourished in Mexico before the Aztecs.
18. Pueblo is the Spanish word for "village" or "town."