How did people inhabit North
America?
The varied cultures of Native
Americans
Main Ideas Addressed
• How and why did man begin to settle down
and begin to develop communities?
• How environment impacts culture and
lifestyle.
• How does surplus impact technology?
Vocabulary
• Migration
• Surplus
• Irrigation
How did people get here?
Land Bridge Theory
• Ice Age caused Ocean levels to
drop.
• Herds of animals moved across land
bridge.
• Hunter Gathers followed herds as
they traveled to hunt them.
• People began to spread out across
North America
Paleo
Indians: use
the land
bridge to
travel
Archaic
Indians:
seasonal
travel &
discover
the
territory
BC 10,000
5,000
Woodland
Indians:
villages
begin and
people
settle down
in smaller
areas
1,000
500
1,000
Mississippi Indians:
tribes begin and
regional differences
develop. Lots of
evidence is left in
order to study these
people.
1,300
1,500
2,000 AD
ARCHAIC INDIANS
1. Semi-nomadic
hunters; moved with
the seasons.
2. May have believed
in an afterlife once
they passed away.
3. Used polished or
shaped stone tools.
Started to develop
ways to improve
hunting and their
way of life.
How did Man stop moving?
• Man stop moving and
began to plant their
food to supplement
hunting.
• Irrigation: watering
crops by channeling
water from rivers and
streams.
• Began to grow a
surplus: more food than
they needed to survive.
Started Farming Then What?
• Different cultures
developed based
on peoples
environment.
• Culture: means
way of life
• Culture area,
regions in which
groups of people
have a similar
way of life.
– Having shared
beliefs
Native American Cultures in North American
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Far North: Arctic Area,
hunters, snow homes
Northwest: Groups from
Southern Alaska to
Northern California,
roamed forests,
gathered, fished,
permanent homes.
Far West: Variety of
climates Variety of
homes, from pit homes,
cone shaped houses,
wooden houses
Southwest: Desert like,
farming, Built large
Adobe, (sun dried brick)
homes and apartments
WOODLAND INDIANS
1. They lived in
permanent villages.
2. Used bow and arrow
3. Hunters & Gatherers
used what was in the
area
for food and housing.
http://www.eliwhitney.org/woodland/images/village.gif
4. A strong belief in the
afterlife.
Different Native American Cultures in
North American
• Great Plains:
Farming, and hunting
buffalo, lived in earth
lodges, and tepees
made of animal skins.
• Eastern Woodlands:
Eastern U.S. Hunting,
farming, wooden
homes, gathered
berries
– Algonquian
– Iroquois
• Southeast: Hot
humid, farming and
hunting
MISSISSIPPIAN INDIANS
1. Lived around ceremonial centers.
These are often on mounds and
important to their spiritual life.
2. Farms and agriculture were the
main sources of food.
3. They enjoyed athletics and “free”
time.
4. They left evidence of life and
artifacts
in illustrate
North Carolina
How do these
pictures
these 4 topics?
http://bama.ua.edu/~alaarch/clipart/indian05.jpg and
http://www.missionsanluis.org/_images/apalacheeProvinceImage.jpg
Power Point Quiz
• What is the name of the theory that explains how human arrived in
North America?
• What weather event made the movement of man possible?
• What determines culture?
• What is a Hunter Gatherer?
• What did man begin to do that stopped him from moving?
• What is surplus?
• How did surplus impact culture?
• How does surplus impact technology?
• Timeline: How does movement effect the
technology of the people?