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Native American Cultures
SS8H1 The student will evaluate the development of Native American cultures and
impact of European exploration and settlement on Native American cultures in Georgia. (a, b,
c)
Evolution of Native Cultures• Through archaeological study we have pieced
together the development of native cultures that inhabited Georgia prior to European contact.
• Early people are identified by cultural periods based on their hunting, eating, and group behavior.
• Paleo, Archaic, Woodland and Mississippian
Paleo Indians
• Earliest people (paleolithic age)• Lived until about 10,000 years ago, prior to
8000 B.C.• People lived in groups of 25-50 people• Nomadic hunters that followed herds• Used wooden spears and Clovis points• Diet included bison, mammoths, ground sloths
and mastodons
Atlatl-Sling type tool which helped natives throw spears more accurately
Arrow or spear
Atlatl
Photo by Catherine Hackney
Archaic Period• These natives lived about 8000 B.C. to about
1000 B.C.• Hunted smaller game like deer, bear, turkey,
rabbit, and fish• Used smaller spears, stone points; invented
choppers, drills and other tools from deer antlers; and fish hooks from animal bones
• Moved during the different seasons to collect berries, nuts and fruit
• Less nomadic and began to save seeds for cultivation of plants and trees
Photo by Catherine Hackney
Woodland Indian Period• About 1000 B.C. to about 1000 A.D.• Tribes developed, several hundred families
banding together.• Began to build houses or large huts• Created the bow and arrow for better hunting• Created pottery for storage of food• Diet included: squash, wild greens, sunflowers,
berries, nuts, fish and game• Traded among different tribes• Burial mounds suggest religious ceremonies
Etowah Indian Mounds Historic SiteGeorgia Department of Natural Resources
Cartersville, GA
Mississippian Period• Culture started around 700 A.D. until
around 1600.• Known as Temple Mound period, lived
in villages of several thousand families with guard towers and palisades
• People grew most of their food, corn (maize), beans, pumpkins, squash and tobacco
• Religious people with beads, tattoos, and headdresses
Photo by Catherine Hackney
European Contact
Colonization in the New World
• The Spanish were the first to settle and explore Georgia
• De Soto’s soldier’s kept journals of their exploration and contact with native people
• Brought diseases that killed more than ½ of the native people
• Created missions along the barrier islands
Spain (1540-1600)• Wants to colonize Southeast: • God: convert “Indians” to Christianity• Gold: find riches and return to Europe• Glory: keep rival European powers from
claiming the land.• (not necessarily in that order)• St. Augustine: first settlement (military purpose) protect the gold!
• Spanish Missions in Georgia
• http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/missions.htm
Spanish Missions
• Spain: Did not want to have civilians colonize the land: sent missionaries and soldiers (key to Spanish colonization)
• Missions: church outposts/barrier islands• Franciscans (Friars): missionaries• Georgia’s coast divided into two provinces:– Guale (Wal-ee) north barrier islands– Mocama: southern islands (down to St. Marys)
Ruins of supposed Spanish mission, Georgia
Guale and Mocama
• Guale: (1566) Pedro Menendez builds mission on St. Catherines Island: not entirely successful
• Mocama (1580’s): spread work along GA coast• Juanillo Rebellion (1597): revolt at Guale– Friars deny Juanillo position of Chief– Revolt hurts Spanish colonization efforts
Explorers
Photo by Catherine Hackney
French (1560’s)
• Had explored Canada and Northern territory• Goal: Trade… Trade… Trade
• 1560’s: Huguenots (French Protestants) settle along the St. Johns– create Charles Fort: first European fort in the New
World (fails due to famine & hardships)
Church at Jamestown, VA
Photo 2010 by Catherine Hackney
England (1600’s)
• Wants to claim territory in the New World• Wants to settle permanent colonies• King James I issues a charter: legal document
creates Virginia Company• 1607: Jamestown: first permanent English
settlement in America• 1600’s-1700’s: England colonizes the East
Coast
• England’s desire to compete with other countries (France and Spain) for power and glory
• MERCANTILISM-Favorable balance of trade (export more than import)-England now had a place to grow RAW MATERIALS to create goods for trade with other countries-Bring gold and silver into the country = strong military-England had laws to regulated this trade philosophy
Tobacco becomes a major cash crop
Freedom from Religious persecution
• Refuge for reformers• Where they could practice their religion
without harassment
Jamestown
Jamestown photos by Catherine Hackney
Review
• Georgia native peoples- Paleo, Archaic, Woodland and Mississippian
• European Colonization- Spain, France, England• St. Augustine is oldest Spanish settlement• Jamestown is oldest English settlement in
North America