Native peoples of the Great Basin, the Plateau and California

Grade 7 Social Studies Worksheet - Building Confidence

Circle the best answer.

1. Read this first

   Great Basin nations

   Nation (own name)	Homeland	Traditional ways of life	Changes and hard history	Today
   Washiw (Washoe)	Lake Tahoe and all the lands around it, in Nevada and California	?	settlers took over the land, and the Washiw had no reservation until 1917, when 156.33 acres near Carson City were bought; it became the Carson Indian Colony	the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California welcomes visitors to its ancestral territory and asks them to help protect it
   Pyramid Lake Paiute	Pyramid Lake, north of Reno, Nevada	fishing for the cui-ui fish and the Lahontan cutthroat trout	Derby Dam, finished in 1905, sent 48 percent of the Truckee River's water away for irrigation, and the lake began to fall	the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe protects the lake; a 2015 agreement put in place a settlement that secures the lake and the cui-ui
   Ute	the mountains of Colorado and eastern Utah	among the first Native peoples to use horses, from the Spanish; trading with the Spanish of New Mexico from about 1600	an 1868 treaty set a reservation of about the western third of Colorado; in 1881 the Tabeguache and White River Utes were removed to the Uintah Reservation in Utah	three Ute nations govern today: the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe in Colorado, and the Ute Indian Tribe in Utah

   The cell marked ? is blank. Below the chart: Washiw means the people. Here, a colony is a small area of land held for a tribe. Irrigation means bringing water to fields to grow crops.

2. 1.

   Ari's chart has a blank: what are the Washiw traditional ways of life?

   • Fishing for cui-ui at Pyramid Lake
   • Harvesting pine nuts for flour and weaving baskets
   • Carving redwood canoes for travel along the ocean coast
   • Welcoming visitors to their ancestral land
3. 2.

   Bo's chart has a blank: what changed at Pyramid Lake?

   • Derby Dam sent river water away, and the lake fell
   • Settlers filled the shore of Lake Tahoe
   • Derby Dam sent extra Truckee water into the lake each year
   • A 2015 agreement secures the lake and the cui-ui
4. 3.

   Kira's chart has a blank: what is true of the Ute today?

   • Three Ute nations govern in Colorado and Utah
   • The Washoe Tribe welcomes visitors to its land
   • Two bands were removed to Utah in 1881
   • The Ute lived in the mountains, but they are gone

5. Great Basin nations

   Nation (own name)	Homeland	Traditional ways of life	Changes and hard history	Today
   Washiw (Washoe)	Lake Tahoe and all the lands around it, in Nevada and California	harvesting pine nuts and living on pine nut flour through the winter; weaving baskets, some used for cooking	settlers took over the land, and the Washiw had no reservation until 1917, when 156.33 acres near Carson City were bought; it became the Carson Indian Colony	the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California welcomes visitors to its ancestral territory and asks them to help protect it
   Pyramid Lake Paiute	Pyramid Lake, north of Reno, Nevada	fishing for the cui-ui fish and the Lahontan cutthroat trout	Derby Dam, finished in 1905, sent 48 percent of the Truckee River's water away for irrigation, and the lake began to fall	the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe protects the lake; a 2015 agreement put in place a settlement that secures the lake and the cui-ui
   Ute	the mountains of Colorado and eastern Utah	among the first Native peoples to use horses, from the Spanish; trading with the Spanish of New Mexico from about 1600	an 1868 treaty set a reservation of about the western third of Colorado; in 1881 the Tabeguache and White River Utes were removed to the Uintah Reservation in Utah	three Ute nations govern today: the Southern Ute Indian Tribe and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe in Colorado, and the Ute Indian Tribe in Utah

   Below the chart: Washiw means the people. Here, a colony is a small area of land held for a tribe. Irrigation means bringing water to fields to grow crops.

6. 4.

   In what year was Derby Dam finished, Luz asks?

   • 1881
   • 1905
   • 2015
   • 1868
7. 5.

   In 1881, where were the Tabeguache and White River Utes removed to, Milo asks?

   • Indian Territory, far to the east
   • The Uintah Reservation in Utah
   • The western third of Colorado
   • The pine nut hills east of Lake Tahoe
8. 6.

   What is a colony, as the Washiw row uses the word, Noah asks?

   • A basket woven for cooking fish and soup
   • A share of the fish caught in the lake
   • A treaty signed with the government in 1868
   • A small area of land held for a tribe
9. 7.

   The chart says the water went away for irrigation. What does that mean, Ren asks?

   • Bringing water to fields to grow crops
   • Fishing for trout along the river
   • Marking a reservation boundary
   • Filling the lake with more water
10. 8.

    Which sentence about the Washiw fits the Today column, Tala asks?

    • The Washiw own the whole Lake Tahoe shore today
    • The Washoe Tribe welcomes visitors and asks them to protect the land
    • The Washiw govern the Uintah Reservation in Utah
    • The Washiw lived near Lake Tahoe long ago, before the nation was gone
11. 9.

    Which sentence about the Pyramid Lake Paiute uses the right tense, Zee asks?

    • They live at Pyramid Lake and protect the cui-ui
    • They built Derby Dam to water their fields
    • They live at Lake Tahoe and harvest pine nuts
    • They fished at Pyramid Lake until the people were gone
12. 10.

    Which sentence about the Ute fits the chart, Esme asks?

    • Ute nations govern in Colorado and Utah today
    • No Ute nation remains in Colorado today
    • The Ute lived in the mountains long ago
    • The Ute live on the shores of Pyramid Lake