Early Peoples of North America
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- thick sheets of ice
- glaciers
- the entire way of life of a people
- culture
- sun-dried brick used for building houses
- adobe
- Navajo house made of mud plaster over a framework of wooden poles
- hogan
- spirits represented by masked Native American dancers who were thought to bring good harvests
- Kachinas
- council of 50 specially chosen tribal leaders that met once a year to make decisions for the League of the Iroquois
- sachems
- Inuit house made of snow and ice
- igloo
- large, multistoried stone and adobe houses seen by Spanish explorers who called them by the Spanish word for "village"
- pueblos
- underground chamber for Pueblo religious ceremonies
- kiva
- ceremonial dinner given by one family to show off wealth and compete with other families in order to improve its standing within a village
- potlatch
- group of 2 or more related families
- clan
- community of people who share common customs, language and rituals
- tribe
- alliance formed by the 5 Iroquois Nations to end the fighting among them
- League of the Iriquois