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What is the act of of moving from one land or country to settle in another place?
migration
What is change in behavior in response to new or modified surroundings?
adaptation
What is something made or used by people from the past?
artifact
What is another word for imply?
infer
What is money in any form when in actual use as a medium or exchange?
currency
What is it called when someone trades one thing for another without the exchange of money?
barter
What is it called when there in no fixed home and one moves according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land?
nomadic
What is the spoken preservation, from one generation to the next, of a people's cultural histoy and ancestry, often by a stroeyteller in narrative form?
oral tradition
What, in archaeology, in teh arrangement of artifacts or events in a sequence relative to one another?
relative dating
What is the determination of the age of an object based on measurable physical or chemical qualities or associations with written records?
absolute dating
What is an article, like a bag, made from an untanned animal hide?
parfleches
What is a frame hung between trailig poles and pulled by a dog or horse?
travois
Who was a Kiowa chief that represented his tribe and was known as the "Orator of the Plains", and was born before KS was open for settlement?
Satanta
Which tribe added a layer of earth o top of the grass on their houses?
Pawnee
How did the Wichita preserve vegetables?
They cut them into strips, dried them, pounded them flat and wove them into mats.
What is the name of the trail that the Osage used, that had shelters made one days travel apart?
Black Dog trail
What kind of housing did the Osage build?
long wood-framed lodges; two related families would live in each lodge, one at each end of the structure.
How are all American Indians alike across North America?
They all create art that reflects their environment.