Native American Cultural Regions

13
“We are a unique and beautiful people. We are the Native Americans.” WA-SHEA-KWU (Lynette Shawano), Wisconsin

description

 

Transcript of Native American Cultural Regions

Page 1: Native American Cultural Regions

“We are a unique and beautiful people.

We are the Native Americans.”WA-SHEA-KWU (Lynette Shawano), Wisconsin

Page 2: Native American Cultural Regions

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

Page 3: Native American Cultural Regions

Migrating Routes of the First Americans

Page 4: Native American Cultural Regions

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

Page 5: Native American Cultural Regions

Native American Cultural Regions

http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/confs&class/class/CS/maps/map3.gif

Page 6: Native American Cultural Regions

Native Americans of the Northwest Coast

www.britannica.com

Page 7: Native American Cultural Regions

Native Americans of California

http://www.missionscalifornia.com/stories/acorns.htm

Page 8: Native American Cultural Regions

Native Americans of the Great Basin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Basin

Page 9: Native American Cultural Regions

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

Page 10: Native American Cultural Regions

Native Americans of the Southwest

Made homes from adobe (sun-dried clay)

http://www.d131.kane.k12.il.us/giftedht/cesar/hopiindians.html

Page 11: Native American Cultural Regions

Native Americans of the Great Plains

Followed buffalo herds most of the year

http://www.st-marys.hull.sch.uk/sites/history/PlainsIndians.htm

Page 12: Native American Cultural Regions

Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands

Design of an Iroquois longhouse (from archaeological evidence)

http://www.uppercanadahistory.ca/fn/fn1.html

Page 13: Native American Cultural Regions

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