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Early Native Americans
- People first came to the Americas thousands
of years ago. At the time, a drop in sea level
in the Bering Strait created a land bridge
connecting Asia and North America.
- land bridge
- Americas
- North America + Central America +
South America + the Caribbean
- Early people depended on hunting for food, so
they probably walked across the land bridge
following animals. Over time, people built
great societies throughout the Americas.
- We call the people who first lived in
North American Native Americans or
American Indians. There were many
different groups of Native Americans.
Each group had its own way of life..
- Native Americans = American Indians
- the people who first lived in North America
- natural environment --> ways of life
- Arctic (very cold)
- people
- Inuit, Inupiaq, others
- food
- hunted marine animals, birds,
& large mamaals
- housing
- houses called igloos (snow + ice)
- other
- animal skins --> warm clothes
& kayaks (small boats)
- Northeast
- people
- Mohawks, Iroquois
- food
- hunted animals + planted crops
- other
- a representative form of government
& used by Founding Fathers
- Great Plains
- food
- hunted animals (buffalo)
- housing
- homes from soil, wood frames, teepees
- other
- developed a cultural around the buffalo
- Pacific Northwest
- Southwest (dry)
- people
- Pueblo Indians, Anasazi
- food
- grew crops
(collected rain water)
- housing
- Pueblo - homes of adoboe;
Anasazi - sides of cliffs
- other
- developed an agricultural system
that used irrigation
- Southeast (swampy)
- peolpe
- Seminole, Greek, others
- food
- grew food &
hunted in the
woodlands
- housing
- chickees
- These early people did not have a written
language, but they left behind petroglyphs,
pottery, and weavings. They also left
behind homes and mounds. Historians
study these artifacts and sites to learn
about the lives of early Native Americans.
- weaving
- cloth made from thread or fibers
- mound
- a small hill that may be either
natural or created by people
- petroglyph
- a stone with writing or
iamges carved on it
- pottery
- objects made from clay
- hunting
- chase and kill wild
animals for food
- society
- a large group of people
who share the sam culture