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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Unit 2 Lesson 1: How did early people live in California?

Book: Our California, History-Social Science for California
Author: William E. White, Ph.D.
U-$0.33-B-0.006065-BE-55
Unit: 2, Early People in California
Lesson: 1, How did early people live in California?
Page: 31-36

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1. Archaeologists learn that most of California's Indian groups use the natural resources in their area to survive.
2. Archaeologists study how people lived in the past.
3. California Indians wove grasses, roots, and bushes into baskets and mats.
4. Trees were used to build homes and boats.
5. Animal bones were used to make tools.
6. Trade is what we call something that is to exchange good and services.
7. The Cahuilla lived near what is now called the Mojave Desert.
8. The Cahuilla hunted antelope and small animals.
9. The Cahuilla lived in a type of reed house called a kish.
10. A tradition is a special way that a group does something, which is part of their way of life.
11. The Cahuilla used the baskets to store their food and water.
12. The Cahuilla men sang the "bird songs."
13. The "bird songs" tell stories about the Cahuilla people.
14. The Chumash ate acorns, fish, shellfish, whales, sea birds, deer, and small animals.
15. The Chumash respected the condor.
16. The houses were shape like domes and covered with woven grass.
17. Chumash used whalebones to make tools.
18. The Chumash used clamshells for money.
19. The Miwok in Winter lived in homes that were dirt-covered that were built halfway underground for warmth.  In summer they lived in bark houses above the ground to keep cool.
20. The Hupa ate elk, deer, salmon, trout, sturgeon, and fish.
21. True, acorn was a staple source of food for the Hupa and Miwok.
22. Hupa homes were 20 feet long, rectangular out of cedar-wood planks.  Their bottom halves were built underground.
23. The Chumash believe in 3 worlds.
24. The eagle lives in the upper world.
25. Humans live in the middle world.
26. Two serpents live in the lower world.
27. Ceremonies were held for the purpose of preventing earthquakes, floods, or crop failures.
28. True, one Cahuilla myth tells about twin brothers who created the world.

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