A Rendezvous with Idaho History

Early Idaho Native Americans Chapter 3 Study Guide Test: Wednesday, December 12th Ice Age  12,000 years ago.  large parts of Asia and North America were covered with ice customs and  the way people live cultures Six main early  Kootenai Native  Kalispel American tribes  Coeur d’Alene of Idaho  Nez Perce  Bannock  Shoshone/Shoshoni camas and  roots that were dug and used as food bitterroot mortar and  stone tools used to grind food pestle mano and  a round rock rubbed over a flat rock metate to grind food jerky  dried meat pemmican  dried meat ground into a fine powder, mixed with melted fat, and made into little cakes.  sometimes berries were added tipi  type of tent shaped like a cone  covered with animal hides or mats of woven grasses mat-covered  a more permanent type of shelter longhouse  several families lived in them together  could be over 100 feet long sweat lodge or  made of sod, sticks, or hides sweat house  steam was made by pouring water on hot rocks  used for religious reasons wind and sun  dome shaped house used to protect shelter Native Americans from the sun and wind sign language  a way of talking using hands and arms to make signs pictographs  symbols painted on rocks petroglyphs  symbols scratched into rocks travois  two long poles tied together  animals skin was fastened between the poles  pulled behind a horse or a dog to help carry supplies myths or  stories about people or animals legends  very important to the Native Americans sinew  tendon that fastens muscle to the bone in an animal