Post on 26-Dec-2015
Today’s Schedule• Turn in Scavenger Hunt• Warm Up• Binder Check• PPT: Early Americans • WS: Native American Maps• HW- Rd. 1.4 & 2.1, Native Map• WARM UP:
–What Native American groups are you familiar with? How do you know these groups (i.e. TV, films, town names, etc.)
Coming to America• DNA evidence suggests 20,000 years ago
– Earliest documentation of first arrival into Alaska
• Crossed Bering Strait from Asia to Alaska– Much ocean water was in glacier form– Exposed a natural land bridge
Clovis Culture• Named after Clovis, New Mexico where first
found in 1932
• Large archeological dig in Cactus Hill area of Sussex Co., VA – Uncovered many remains believed to be from
Clovis Culture
New Evidence of an Earlier Culture• Long believed to be the first culture in
America
• New evidence shows culture present in North and South America
–Current radiocarbon dating compared to past evidence would require them to arrive in South America in 200 years?!
• Not likely possible
–No evidence left behind from supposed trail from Siberia to Alaska
Nine Regions of Native Americans
• Arctic
• Pacific Northwest
• California
• Plateau
• Great Basin
• Southwest
• Plains
• Northeast
• Southeast
Arctic Native Americans
• Name: Inuit and Yupik– Many groups included in this category, including
Eskimo
• Location: Arctic Canada and present Alaska
• Food: Fished (salmon, whale) and hunted (caribou)
• Housing: Lived in wooden homes with animal skin/fur
• Dog sledding main form of transportation
Northwest Coast
• Name: Spokane, Tlingit
• Location: Pacific Northwest
• Food: Fished (salmon) and gathered (berries)
• Housing: Longhouses made of cedar
• Transportation: Canoes
Native American Structure
• Societies organized according to family relationships (kinships)
• Further organized by clans
–A group of kinships from a common ancestor
Native American Religions• Religion based on belief in a powerful spiritual
world
– Creation stories often depict man as a descendent from animals
– Reason for strong relationship of respect
• Belief in several deities who control each part of life
• Complex set of rituals for every aspect of life
• A shaman is the spiritual leader of a tribe
Relationship to Land
• Belief that land could not be owned
– Land and nature was provided by deities for sustainable use
– Powerful source of conflict when Europeans arrived
Trading
• Trading occurred within tribal groups and with other tribal groups
• Traded for items needed and as a sign of respect
• Created trade routes throughout America