First American Vocabulary
Wigwam Adventure
Amulet:
a charm or ornament
Farm: to
cultivate or grow plants
Gather:
to pick up, collect, or harvest
Hunt: to
pursue for food
Migrate:
to move from one country, place, or locality to another
Three Sisters:
the three crops of corn, beans, and squash grown together and
often eaten together by the native peoples
Wigwam:
a hut of the Native Americans of the Great Lakes region and eastward
having typically an arched framework of
poles overlaid with bark, rush mats, or
hides
Stone Tools
Acute Angle:
an angle less than a “right” or 90o angle
Basalt:
fine grained igneous rock dominated by dark-colored minerals, consisting
of over
50% plagioclase feldspars and the balance
ferromagnesian silicates;
together with andesites,
basalts represent approximately 98% of all extrusive
rocks
Chert:
very dense, usually light-colored siliceous rock usually found associated
with
limestone, either in the form of nodular or concretionary
masses or as distinct
beds
Cleavage:
breaking of minerals or rocks along certain preferred planes or
directions
Conchoidal Fracture:
a mineral’s habit of breaking in which the fracture produces
curved surfaces like the interior of a shell (conch);
typical of glass and quartz
Crystal:
a solid with orderly atomic arrangement; may or may not develop external
faces that give it crystal form
Drill:
to bore or drive a hole in
Flint:
dense, hard, siliceous rock composed of very finely crystalline and
amorphous silica
Obsidian:
glassy equivalent of granite
Percussion Flaking:
a process of forming a stone tool or artifact by striking flakes
from a stone core with another stone or a piece of bone
or wood.
Pressure Flaking:
process of forming a stone tool or artifact (such as a stone point)
by
removing excess material as chips and flakes by pressing against it rather than
by striking it
Sand:
to smooth or dress by grinding or rubbing with an abrasive
Sandstone:
consolidated rock composed of sand grains cemented together; usually
made up of quartz
Scrape:
to remove excrescent matter from a surface by usually repeated strokes of
an edged instrument
Sinew:
tendon of an animal prepared for use as a cord or thread
Soapstone
(Talc): a silicate of magnesium common among metamorphic minerals;
greasy
and extremely soft; its crystalline structure is based on tetrahedra arranged
in sheets
Tunxis Indians Hayride
Attalattle:
tool made of wood and bone used as an extension of the arm to aid in
the throwing of an arrow
Hunt:
to pursue for food
Migrate:
to move from one country, place, or locality to another
Spear:
tool with a long shaft and sharp head or blade usually thrown
Wigwam:
a hut of the Native Americans of the Great Lakes region and eastward
having typically an arched framework of
poles overlaid with bark, rush mats, or
hides
Foods of the Earth
Farm: to
cultivate or grow plants
Fruit:
the usually edible reproductive body of a seed plant, especially one having a
sweet pulp associated with the seed
Gather:
to pick up, collect, or harvest
Hunt: to
pursue for food
Native:
grown, produced, or originating in a particular place in the vicinity
Node:
region of the stem where a leaf or leaves are attached
Nut:
a hard-shelled dry fruit or seed with a separable rind or shell and interior
kernel
Pemmican:
a food made of dried meat and dried berries made and eaten by the
native peoples
Rhizome:
horizontal stems that grow at or below the ground’s surface and produce
new shoots and roots at the nodes
Root:
the usually underground part of a seed plant body that functions as an organ
of absorption, aeration, and food storage or as a
means of anchorage and support
Seed:
the grains or ripened ovules of plants used for sowing or as food
Stolon (Runner):
horizontal stems that grow over the ground surface, developing
new plantlets at the tips
Three Sisters:
the three crops of corn, beans, and squash grown together and
often eaten together by the native peoples
Tuber:
specialized storage stem; expanded tip of a rhizome
Wigwam:
a hut of the Native Americans of the Great Lakes region and eastward
having
typically
an arched framework of poles overlaid with bark, rush mats, or
hide
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