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“We are a unique and beautiful people.
We are the Native Americans.”WA-SHEA-KWU (Lynette Shawano), Wisconsin
Chapter 1, Section 2:Migration Routes of the First
AmericansI. Ice Age exposed land bridge connecting Asia
& North America 30,000 years ago
II. First Americans migrated on foot from Asia across a land bridge (Beringia)
I. Migrate - to move from one place and establish a home in a new place
III. Native Americans eventually became hunter-gatherers
Migrating Routes of the First Americans
Chapter 1, Section 3:Native Americans Adapt to the
EnvironmentI. Used natural resources for food, clothing and
shelter
II. Developed their own cultures over generations
III. By 1400s, 1-2 million Native Americans lived in 10 cultural regions
IV. Believed in a strong spiritual connection to nature
Native American Cultural Regions
http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/confs&class/class/CS/maps/map3.gif
Native Americans of the Northwest Coast
www.britannica.com
Native Americans of California
http://www.missionscalifornia.com/stories/acorns.htm
Native Americans of the Great Basin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Basin
Salmon and camas were dried in the summer and stored for use in the winter.
Native Americans of the Plateau
http://www.scsc.k12.ar.us/2002Outwest/NaturalHistory/Projects/LachowskyR/Plateau%20culture%20area.htm
Native Americans of the Southwest
Made homes from adobe (sun-dried clay)
http://www.d131.kane.k12.il.us/giftedht/cesar/hopiindians.html
Native Americans of the Great Plains
Followed buffalo herds most of the year
http://www.st-marys.hull.sch.uk/sites/history/PlainsIndians.htm
Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands
Design of an Iroquois longhouse (from archaeological evidence)
http://www.uppercanadahistory.ca/fn/fn1.html
Native Americans of the Southeast
Moundville Archaeological Park, in western Alabama, was the site of a Mississippian Indian settlement from about AD 1000 to 1450. The flat-topped earth mounds were used as building foundations.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-55581/Moundville-Archaeological-Park-in-western-Alabama-was-the-site-of