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A small group of families living together
a) Band
b) Lodge
c) Clan
d) Council

A religious ritual
a) Nomadic
b) Ceremony
c) Tepee
d) Travois

A group of people sharing a common ancestor.
a) Shaman
b) Creation Myth
c) Mammoth
d) Clan

A group of people that advises or governs.
a) Council
b) Clan
c) Lodge
d) Tepee

A ancient story that explains how the world was formed or how its people came to exist.
a) Nomadic
b) Warbonnet
c) Travois
d) Creation Myth

A traditional Native American house.
a) Sod
b) Council
c) Lodge
d) Mammoth

An extinct, very large elephant-type mammal with long curved tusks.
a) Mammoth
b) Clan
c) Pemmican
d) Prairie

Moving from place to place in search of food and water; having no fixed home.
a) Nomadic
b) Clan
c) Sod
d) Prairie

A food made of dried-meat paste, fat, nuts, and berries
a) Tepee
b) Pemmican
c) Sedentary
d) Clan

A large flat or rolling area of grassland, as in the Great Plains
a) Sod
b) Shaman
c) Warbonnet
d) Prairie

Remaining or living in one area.
a) Tepee
b) Travois
c) Sedentary
d) Nomadic

A tribe's healer or spiritual guide.
a) Shaman
b) Clan
c) Warbonnet
d) Ceremony

A section of grass-covered soil held together by roots.
a) Prairie
b) Pemmican
c) Sod
d) Council

A portable, cone-shaped tent made of poles covered by skins or bark.
a) Sod
b) Shaman
c) Lodge
d) Tepee

A carrier made of poles, attached to an animal to transport heavy loads.
a) Band
b) Mammoth
c) Travois
d) Ceremony

A feather-covered headdress worn by some Plains Indian warriors.
a) Warbonnet
b) Band
c) Shaman
d) Ceremony

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