Native Americans

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Native American Region Cultural Characteristics
Artic
Northwest Coast
Plateau
Great Basin
California
Southwest
Great Plains
Northeast Woodlands
Southeast
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Native Americans

• Native Americans were the people who lived in
  America before people from other countries came
  here.

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Native Americans respected nature.
They took care of the earth and only used what
they needed.
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Native Americans used natural resources to meet
their needs.
trees
water
stones
buffalo
Natural resources are things in nature that
people can use.
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• Native Americans lived in culture groups.

• The people in a culture group have the same way
  of life.

• A culture group is a group of people who live in
  the same region.

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Each region had different physical surroundings.
Some regions had forests.
Others were mostly desert.
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Still others had oceans nearby.
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Each region had different natural resources.
Each culture group used the natural resources in
its region to meet its needs.
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For this reason, Native American culture groups
had different homes.
Those who lived near deserts used clay or stones
to build their homes.
Those who lived on the Plains used buffalo skins
to make their homes.
Still others lived near forests. They built
their homes of wood.
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Physical surroundings affected how the Indians
traveled, too. All Indians walked.
Plains and Southwest Indians got horses from
Spanish explorers.
Indians in the Eastern Woodlands, Northwest
Coast, and California Intermountain regions used
canoes.
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• What is present-day Arizona was home to the
  Hohokam people. They were geniuses in the way
  they were able to squeeze water out of the
  sunbaked soil.

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Many Native American culture groups built their
homes in villages or cities.
These are the remains of an ancient Anasazi
cliff village.
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Anasazi AD 1 TO AD 1300

• Built great stone dwellings called pueblos.
• Pueblo Bonito- 4 stories high and hundreds of
  rooms. Complex roads connecting Pueblo Bonito
  with other villages.

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The Intuits lived in the Artic and are thought to
be the last migrants that came across the land
bridge into North America. Inuit built igloos.
Their clothing is made of furs and sealskins
which were both warm and waterproof.
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Other culture groups, like the Great Plains, were
nomadic.
They could not live in one place. They had to
move around to follow the buffalo.
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Used the buffalo for everything food, clothing,
shelter, tools, etc. Spaniards brought horses to
Mexico in 1500s eventually made their way north
and they adapted horses to their lifestyle.
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The Plains Indians had special ceremonies before
big hunts. They danced to the music of drums.
They thought this would bring them good luck on
the hunt.
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The physical surroundings of each region also
affected how each culture group got its food.
Native Americans in the Northeast Woodlands were
very lucky. That region had forests, lakes and
rivers, a nearby ocean, and good climate. These
Native Americans could farm, hunt, and fish for
food.
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Mound Builders lived in the Northeast Woodlands
and were the Adena and Hopewell. They built huge
mounds used as burial chambers. These are all
over Mount Sterling!!!
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Cahokia was a huge settlement that was part of
the Mound Builders. Over 16,000 people lived
here!! Dominated by a great pyramid shaped mound.
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There were no forests in the Southwest region.
The land was rocky and uneven.
There were many mesas, or large rocks with flat
tops. The Indians who lived in this region were
farmers. They planted their crops on the tops of
mesas.
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The physical surroundings of the regions affected
each culture groups way of life in other ways,
too.
There was much clay in the Southwest.Native
Americans that lived in this region used the clay
to make beautiful pottery.
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Hopi, Acoma, Zuni 1,000 of years
Made homes out of dried mud brick called adobe.
Raised corn as their basic food
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Apache and Navajo Pushed here by Europeans.
Originally hunters and gatherers but began to
settle down into communities.
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Native Americans in the California region were
known as gatherers.
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There were few natural resources in this region.
These Native Americans gathered acorns, seeds,
and fruits. They also dug up plant roots to eat
for food.
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Native Americans in the California region were
expert basket weavers.
They made beautiful baskets out of grasses and
plants.
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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.
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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
familys history.
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Great Basin

• This area east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains is
  in present day Nevada.
• It received little rainfall and was very dry.
• People were subsistence farmers (they produced
  only enough to feed their families) and hunters
  and gatherers.

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Plateau

• The Plateau Indians lived in parts of present day
  Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
• They also lived in a dry environment where they
  lived by hunting and gathering.

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The Southeast was a wooded area but with warmer
climate. The Creek, Chicksaw, and Cherokee lived
here.
Grew corn, tobacco, squash, and other crops.
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Lets review. We know

• Native Americans were the first Americans.

• Native Americans respected nature.

• Native Americans used natural resources.

• Native Americans lived in different regions.

• Native Americans had different homes.

• Native Americans got food in different ways.

• Native American culture groups had different ways
  of life due to their different physical
  surroundings and natural resources.

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