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The most important social unit in the NW Coast was the __________. a. moiety b. nuclear family c. clan d. lineage The environment of the Plateau region is __________. a. arctic with year-round snowcover and/or permafrost b. mild, experiencing much […]

The first Europeans to contact the people of the Subarctic were __________. a. British fur traders in the 1600s b. French fur traders in the 1500s c. Russian fur traders in the 1700s d. Norse explorers around A.D. 1000 Sovereignty […]

In the 1870s American Indian policy __________. a. shifted from segregation to assimilation b. extended treaty-making into the 1890s c. allowed Indian children to remain on reservations to maintain their culture d. added land to most Indian reservations Which of […]

The major social unit in California was __________. a. the clan b. the lineage c. the moiety d. the nuclear family. Highly respected and sometimes serving as doctors or second wives, the Cheyanne hemaneh literally translates as __________. a. bisexual […]

The first Europeans to contact the Northwest Coast Indians were ___________. a. Americans b. French c. Russian d. British From 1680 to 1880 many Cheyenne were forced from __________. a. Minnesota to Oklahoma b. Florida to Montana c. Wyoming to […]

Norseman Leif Eriksson landed in Newfoundland around A.D. 1000, the first documented European contact with the New World The two major divisions of the Arctic people are __________. a. Eskimo and Inuit b. Aleut and Eskimo c. Eskimo and Algonkian […]

Men in the Arctic fought mainly over _________ and resolved disputes with __________. a. hunting partners, harpoon-throwing contests b. territory, knives c. women, song contests d. food, their fists The Archaic Puebloans or Anasazi __________. a. adopted above-ground masonry houses; […]

The Western Woods Cree __________. a. traveled mainly on horseback b. made excellent pottery c. lived in semi-subterranean pit-houses d. all of the above e. none of the above A common element of Pueblo religion was __________. a. female shamans […]

Mississippian Complexes (c. 1000-500 BP) __________. a. made hunting the most important way to obtain food b. had large towns and corn agriculture c. stressed equality d. functioned without a specialization of labor Modern Great Basin Indians __________. a. have […]

Southeast religions __________. a. emphasized One World, the visible world we live in b. believed in the maintenance of purity and harmony as their primary goal c. said people had no souls d. believed the world is round and sits […]

Nez Perce marriages __________. a. took place before the female reached puberty b. were village exogamous. c. were complex ceremonies. d. usually ended in divorce. What is the single greatest health problem today on Indian reservations? a. cancer b. gout […]

With reference to death, the Navajo __________. a. viewed it as frightful except among the aged b. removed the dying from a hogan c. disposed of a body as soon as possible d. all of the above In the Southeast, […]