This booklet is a rich source of content that helps in learning the history of ancient America. In this, you will learn about the different tribes at that time and also their different aspects.
1. Native American QuickTime™ and a Tribes decompressor are needed to see this picture.
2. Each region had different natural resources. Each culture group used the natural resources in its region to meet its needs.
3. Native Americans used natural resources to meet their needs. tree water stones buffalo s Natural resources are things in nature that people can use.
5. Great Plains Indians Homes Buffalo were a natural resource in the Plains region. The meat was used for food. The skins were used for shelters and clothing. The bones were used for tools.
6. Great Plains Indians Homes • Tepees: tent-like American Indian houses QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture. QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture. • Grass Houses:beehive shape and thatched with long prairie grass (Caddos) QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this pictu QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture.
8. South East Indians • Lived about 4000 years ago. • Each tribe had their own government and languages. QuickTime™ and a decompressor • The tribes believed in are needed to see this picture. their own gods and goddesses to guide them through life.
9. QuickTime™ and a decompressor QuickTime™ and a decompressor South East Indians are needed to see this picture. are needed to see this picture. • Wattle & Daub Houses: made by weaving rivercane, wood, and vines into a frame, then coating the frame with plaste (Cherokee) • Chickees: Huts, stilt housesick posts supporting a thatched roof and a flat wooden platform raised several feet off the ground. They did not have any walls (Florida ) • Earth Homes: in the ground QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture. QuickTime™ and a QuickTime™ and a decompressor decompressor QuickTime™ and a are needed to see this picture. are needed to see this picture. decompressor are needed to see this picture.
10. South East Indians • Produced colorful art using their dyes. • Made their own baskets from natural materials. • Used shells to make QuickTime™ and a decompressor tools and hunting are needed to see this picture. knives. • Most known for their beautiful beadwork.
11. Northeast Indians Tribes The group of Native American known as the Woodland Indians is made up of several tribes. These are some of the major tribes. Delaware Wampanoag Huron Narraganset Powhatan Iroquois Mohawk Oneida Onondaga Cayuga Seneca Tuscarora
12. Dyed quills decorated moccasins in red, blue and violet. These are Seneca quilled
13. This is a picture of the traditional dress of men in many of the Woodland tribes.
14. Food Corn, beans, and squash were the most important crops planted. They were know as “The Three Sisters” as they were also grown together.
15. QuickTime™ and a QuickTime™ and a decompressor decompressor North East Homes are needed to see this picture. are needed to see this picture. • Wigwams-woven mats and sheets of birchbark (Algonquian) • Longhouse: Longhouses could be 150 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 20 feet high (Iroquois) QuickTime™ and a QuickTime™ and a decompressor decompressor are needed to see this picture. are needed to see this picture.
16. Iroquois Confederacy • Political alliance formed by five language related tribes in the Northeastern Woodlands • Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca • Alliance formed to ensure protection of tribal lands • U.S. uses similar ideas when creating its own government
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18. Southwest • Hohokam, Anasazi, Hopi, Navaho • Harsher environment - dry desert • Farmers - used irrigation to grow corn, beans, and squash - The Three Sisters • Excellent builders - pueblos and cliff dwellings
19. Southwest Indians • Adobe Houses:multi-story houses made of adobe (clay and straw baked into hard bricks • Hopi, Pueblo, Adobe QuickTime™ and a QuickTime™ and a QuickTime™ and a decompressor decompressor decompressor are needed to see this picture. are needed to see this picture. are needed to see this picture.
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21. Cliff Palace Mesa Verde
22. Kiva Underground ceremonial chambers
23. The Pacific Northwest
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25. Pacific Northwest • Kwakiutl, Nootka, Haida • Abundant environment - sea and forest • Whale hunters • Wealth leads to social classes • Potlatch - giving away ceremony to show wealth
26. The Northwest Coast region had many forests. The Native Americans in this region used wood from the forests to carve tall totem poles. The carvings on each totem pole told about a family’s history.
27. Indians from the Northwest Coast hunted sea animals in the Pacific Ocean. There were many salmon in the rivers for them to eat. They also hunted animals in nearby forests.
28. North West Indians • Plank Houses: Flat planks of cedar wood QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture.
29. Lived in QuickTime™ and a decompressor Tundra are needed to see this picture.
30. Winter Seal
31. Inuit Fur Clothing Travel QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture.
32. Inuit Diet Primary Foods: Seal Caribou Whale Walrus Fish Birds All are high in protein and fat
33. Artic Homes • Igloos: Blocks made of ice QuickTime™ and a QuickTime™ and a decompressor QuickTime™ and a decompressor decompressor are needed to see this picture. are needed to see this picture. are needed to see this picture.
34. California • Encompasses the western states. • The Pomo, an Indian tribe, crafted beautiful baskets of all different sizes and for all different occasions. • Lived in communities numbering up to 2,000 • More than 100 languages flourished in California before European contact; most are gone today.
35. Great Basin • From the Rockies to the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges. Largely consisting of desert. • Water & food was hard to come by, too dry for farming- few animals to hunt. Gathered nuts and seeds. • Tribes had to stay on the move, most natives had a routine route they traveled every year. Because they were always moving their dwellings were mostly temporary. • California and Intermountain regions used shells as currency.
36. Plateau • Eastern Oregon and Washington, southern Alberta and British Columbia, northern Idaho and western Montana. • Hot summers and long cold winters. • Pattern of life similar to Great Basin peoples but was enhanced by annual runs of salmon up the Columbia River. • People lived in villages made of partly sunken circular dwellings in the cold months and camped in grass mat houses in the warm months
37. Work Cited • http://www.native-languages.org/houses .htm • http://www.davemcgary.com/images/da ve-mcary-expressions-in-bronze/north-a merican-tribal-map.jpg
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