Thursday, August 26 th --Bellwork

1. Thursday, August 26th--Bellwork • If you have Colored Pencils, Bring them. • Turn to p. 13 in your book.

2. Friday, August 27th Bellwork • You have the beginning of class to finish your webpage. • In 10 minutes you need to have your Webpage taped to the wall under the correct culture area.

3. Native American Culture Areas • You are part of a web design team. • Your website is dedicated to a specific Native American Culture Area. • Your job is to make a hard copy of a webpage.

4. Research your cultural area. Txt pages 12-14. • Use MR.LIP to describe your cultural area: • How did people, products and ideas get from one place to another? • What was it like in that region (climate, physical features, etc.)? • Where was it located? • How did Native Americans adapt to and interact with the environment? • What was unique about that particular place or tribe (natural resources, customs, tribes who lived there)? • Make your project look like a real web page that can be transferred to the Internet (URL, title, links, pictures, etc).

5. 2nd Period • Please put the desks back into rows and sit in your regular seat • Get out your pyramid and your notes.

6. Arctic Northwest Great Basin Southwest Great Plains Eastern Woodlands/Northeast Southeast Native American Cultural Areas

7. Artic The 7 Native American Cultural Areas: Great Plains Eastern Woodlands Northwest Great Basin Southeast Southwest Native American Cultures

8. Culture Areas • Geographic locations that influence society. • Regions of the world that affect where you live. • Used by researchers to help describe Native American people groups.

9. Artic

10. Arctic:(ex: Inuit and Aleut peoples) • Climate/Resources: • Had long, cold winters and short summers. • How They Adapted: • They fished and hunted large mammals. • Lived in igloos. • Subarctic people werenomadic (moved around in search of food).

11. Northwest

12. Northwest:(more than 100 languages spoken) • Climate/Resources: • Mostly mild; rich harvests of fish and forests • How They Adapted: • Built permanent villages, fished, traded • Lived in CLANS (family groups) • Carved images of totems, ancestor or animal spirits, on tall, wooden poles.

16. Great Basin

17. What’s a Basin? • Geographic term: A large, bowl-shaped depression in the surface of the land or ocean floor.

18. Great Basin:(ex: Nez Percé, Shoshone) • Climate/Resources: • Cold at night & dry • Plants & animals available • How They Adapted: • Hunted small animals, collected nuts, dug for roots, traded, raided villages

19. A wickiup Piñon Tree Appaloosa Horses

22. Southwest

23. Southwest:(ex: Apache, Navajo, Pueblo) • Climate/Resources • Hot & dry • How They Adapted • Lived in adobe villages • Irrigated land to grow crops FACT: In parts of Arizona and New Mexico it rains less than ten inches a year.

24. The Anasazi: "the cliff dwellers". • Long ladders reached the homes. • When they saw someone coming, they would pull them up or kick them down. • The later pueblos were like the cliff houses. • The Pueblo descended from the Anasazi culture of 1,700 years ago. Anasazi houses

25. Adobe: Hogan • Adobe is a kind of natural clay that is sticky when wet but dries hard. Pueblo means “town” in Spanish. It refers to the houses and the people who live in them. Pueblo Homes

26. Today…

27. Rain Dance

29. Great Plains

30. Great Plains:(ex: Arapahos, Cheyenne, Crows) • Climate/Resources • Grassland; few trees • Very cold winters; very hot summers • How They Adapted • Lived in tepees • Hunted buffalo • Used buffalo skins for shields, clothing and coverings for teepees, cone-shaped shelters.

33. Eastern Woodlands

34. Eastern Woodlands:(ex: Iroquois) • Climate/Resources • Humid, mild summers & cold winters • Animals & fertile soil • How They Adapted • Built farming villages • IROQUOIS LEAGUE: a confederation that waged war against non-Iroquois peoples. • Use wampum to relay messages – later used as money by colonists.

36. A wigwam is smaller than a longhouse and was easier to make for hunter gatherers.

37. Southeast

38. Southeast:(ex: Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Shawnee) • Climate/Resources • Warm & moist • Lots of animals, fish, & fertile soil • How They Adapted • Lived in farming villages • Hunted & fished

39. Mound Builders • Lived in the Southeast from about 1000 B.C. to A.D. 700. • Built huge mounds that were as high as a ten story building. • The mounds were used for temples and as burial sites.

40. Round Council House Chickee Southeastern Houses Log House

41. Cherokee

42. Religion:A system of beliefs or practices concerning the supernatural or divine.MOST NATIVE AMERICANSSHARED 4 BELIEFS: • Polytheistic (worship of many Gods). “Mother Earth” and Sky are sustainers of life. • Spirits live everywhere – even plant and animals. • Individuals own crops, not land. • Land should be preserved for future generations.

43. Native American Cultural Areas MAP • Draw and label the 7 N.A. Cultural Areas • For each cultural area, answer the questions: • What was one tribe that lived there? • How did they survive? • What was one unique thing about their culture? • Thought bubble: If you could live for a week with any Native American people, who would they be and why?