American Indians (3-1)
Name: ________________________________________________________ Class: __________
Read “Paleo Indians” on pages 48 – 49.
1. What does the word “paleo” mean?
2. Why do you think the first people followed herds of wild animals?
3. What kinds of tools did Paleo Indians make?
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4. What kinds of foods did the Paleo Indians eat?
5. What kinds of homes did the Paleo Indians live in?
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Read “Archaic Indians” on page 49.
6. Name three (3) tools Archaic Indians learned to make.
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7. What did they do to keep insects and animals away from their food?
8. Why did the Archaic Indians not have to move so often?
Read “The Hopewell People” and “A Farmer Discovers Hopewell Mounds” on
pages 50 – 51.
9. What did the Hopewell People do that allowed them to stay in one place all year?
10. What did they do with their dead?
11. Look at the field on page 50 and 51. What do you see in the background?
12. What does bartered mean?
13. How do archaeologists know that the Hopewell People traded and bartered?
14. How did the Hopewell People get their name?
Read “Archaeologists & Artifacts” on page 52.
15. What are artifacts?
16. What artifacts does Mr. Bara have in his classroom?
17. What is an Archaeologist?
18. What does an Archaeologist do to find clues?
19. What can archaeologists learn about people just by studying artifacts and ruins?
Read “Mississippian Mound Builders” and “Let’s Play!” on page 53.
20. Where did the Mississippian Mound Builders live?
21. What crop did they grow?
22. How did they build the mounds?
23. In what shapes did they make their mounds?
24. What is chunkey?
25. How do you play chunkey?
Read “Cahokia” on pages 54 – 55.
26. How many people lived in Cahokia?
27. Where did the leaders live?
28. Why did they have a wall?
29. Why did the wealthy people live at the center of the city?
30. List five (5) theories on what happened to the Cahokia Indians.
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