California Indian Report
Essential Question: How did the native
Californians survive using natural resources?
1. What food does your tribe
eat?
q Who gets the food?
q Who prepares the food?
q How is the food prepared?
q How is the food stored?
q Other interesting information related to food.
2. What types of clothing does your
tribe wear?
q Where does the clothing come
from?
q Who makes the clothing?
q How is it made?
q What is it made from?
q Are there different kinds of
clothing for different occasions?
q Other interesting information related to clothing.
3. What are the natural
resources used by your tribe?
q How are the natural
resources used?
q Which natural resources are
abundant?
q Which natural resources can
be traded?
q Which natural resources are
lacking?
q Which natural resource is
the most valuable? Why?
q Why are natural resources so
important to Indians?
q Other interesting
information about natural resources.
4. What are the tools used by
your tribe?
q What were the tools made
from?
q What tools did the women
use?
q What tools did the men use?
q Did the children use tools?
q If so, how did the children
learn to use tools?
q Were any of the tools used
in trading?
q Other interesting
information about tools.
5. Dwellings
q What kind of homes did your
tribe live in?
q What natural resources did
they use to build their homes?
q Why did they use these
natural resources?
q Who built the homes?
q How were they constructed?
q How long did it take to
build a home?
6. Geography
q Where in
q What landforms are in this
region?
q How did their region affect
the way they lived?
q Did the geography make their
life easier or harder?
q Other interesting
information about the geography of this tribe’s region.
7. Transportation
q What means of transportation
did your tribe use?
q How did they get this type
of transportation?
q Did they have to make it?
q If so, how did they make it
and what did they use?
q How did they care for it?
How did they store it?
q Other interesting
information about transportation.
8. Beliefs/Ceremonies
q What beliefs did your tribe
have?
q How did their beliefs affect
the way they lived?
q What is a ceremony?
q What kind of ceremonies did
your tribe have? Describe them.
q Other interesting
information about beliefs/ceremonies.
9. Children
q What kinds of chores did the
children have?
q What kinds of games did they
play?
q Did they go to school?
q Who taught them what they
needed to know?
q How did they learn?
q Other interesting information about Indian children.