CA History Lesson 3
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- mountain, skunks
- They fished and hunted small game like rabbits, ________ sheep, raccoons, and _______.
- gathering, cooking, storing
- Mothers and grandmothers taught young girls how to weave baskets for___________, _________, and __________ food.
- acorns
- Women and girls gathered _____________ to make a kind of flour.
- squash, pumpkins,
- The Mojave grew ______, melons, pumpkins, and corn.
- mule, blacktail
- Men hunted _____ deer, _________ deer, black bears, jack rabbits, raccoons, squirrels, and porcupines.
- "Mojave"
- The word "_________" means three mountains.
- Colorado
- The _________ River is the main source of water in the desert region.
- berries
- Women gathered acorns and many types of ________.
- Miwok
- Members of the ________ village had special jobs.
- ceremony
- A __________ is a planned event that marks a special occasion such as a wedding or holiday.
- quail, geese
- Also, they hunted mountain _____ and a variety of ______ and songbirds.
- Dried berries, greens, and deer meat
- helped villagers survive the winter.
- berries, nuts
- Miwok girls gathered _______ and ______ in the meadows and woods.
- Maidu
- Because winters are colder and longer in this region than in other parts of California, the ______ had to preserve and store food for winter months when animals were harder to hunt.
- fish, traps, bows
- Other Miwok men spent much of their time on the river spearing ______, making basket fish _______, or making ______.
- deer, bighorn
- For thousands of years, the Mojave, Chemehuevis, and other tribes of Southern California hunted _____ and _______ sheep.
- rectangular
- They built large _________ houses with mud-covered grass roofs.
- poisonous
- Mothers taught their daughters which plants were good to eat and which were ______________.
- Obsidian
- Men made arrow points from a shiny, black stone called ________.
- seeds, fruits
- They gathered _____ and ______ from the cactus plants and trees growing there.
- arrows
- Boys also learned to make their own _______ from several types of wood.