SSH1a. Locate where the Native Americans settled with emphasis on
Inuit(Arctic Region), Kwakiutl(Northwest region), Nez Perce(Plateau
Region), Hopi(Southwest region), Pawnee(Plains region),
Seminole(Southeastern region)
SS4H1b. Describe how the Native Americans used their environment
to obtain food, clothing, and shelter.
SS4G2a. Explain why each of the Native American groups occupied
the areas they did, with emphasis on why some developed
permanent villages and others did not.
Scientists believe that the first people to come to North America
may have come across a frozen bridge of land that once connected
Asia and Alaska. They were called Paleo-Indians. Native
Americans moved around to find food. They hunted fished, and
gathered fruit and nuts.
Inuit ( Arctic ),
Kwakiutl( Pacific Northwest ),
Nez Perce( Plateau ),
Pawnee( Plains ),
Hopi( Southwest),
Seminole( Southeastern )
The Inuit settled in the Arctic ,what is now Alaska and Northern
Canada. The temperature is below freezing almost all year!
Cold Climate-Snow and ice covered the land.
Shelter made from
wood
Snow packed Igloo
Shelter made from
caribou
skin
Arctic Foxes
Whales
Caribou
Walruses
Seals
Polar bears
Snow shoe hares
The Inuits are known for whaling. Inuits consume a diet
Of Beluga and Baleen Whale. Eating whale is part of the
Inuit
The Inuits used whale to make household utensils such as
soup bowls, large water buckets, and other storage containers.
Many of these items are made with a wooden bottom grooved
to make a tight fitting spill-proof container.
The Inuit Clothing
The Inuit used every part of the animal that they hunted. Their
clothing was made from polar bear skin, caribou skin, seal skin,
animal fur, and feathers. They even made clothing from trees.
Northwest stretches from Alaska to Northern California
The Kwakiutl tribe settled in Washington State, Oregon, and
Northern California. They depended on the sea, rivers, and forests
for their way of life. Rainy and mild climate
They lived in plank
houses.
The Kwakiutl built large homes from cedar trees and then decorated
them with carvings and paint.
Fish(Salmon)
seals
seaweed
Clams and oysters
Sea otter
berries
whales
Sea birds
Plant roots
The Kwakiutl made their clothing from the bark of a cedar tree.
The bark was shredded to make skirts, aprons , waterproof capes,
and hats.
The Plateau is between the Cascade and the Rocky Mountains.
Nez Perce lived in settled villages of earth houses.
They made these homes by digging an underground
room, then building a wooden frame over it and
covering the frame with earth, cedar bark, and tule
mats. There were two styles of Nez Perce earth
houses: oval-shaped longhouses, which could be as
long as 150 feet, and smaller round houses. Dozens of
families lived together in a longhouse, while only one
family lived in a round house.
Once the Nez Perce began
hunting the buffalo, they
began to use tipis
salmon
plants
goat
deer
berries
bear
Beaver Skin Cape
Deerskin Moccasins
Cedar bark dress
Grass Skirt
Deer Skin Dress
Deer skin jacket
Leather Pants
Grass Leggings
Rabbit fur Poncho
Deerskin moccasins
and leggings
manta
shirt, pants, woven
from wool (sheep),
skirts for women,
leggings
This land is dry with grasslands and no trees.
A lodge is a home that the Pawnee tribe made using bark, earth and grass.
The lodges protected them from cold and story weather.
Teepee from buffalo
In the Spring and Fall, the
Pawnee stayed in their
villages and raised crops
such as corn,
squash, and beans.
In the summer and winter they
hunted buffalo on the Plains.
The Pawnee clothing was made mostly from buffalo skins. Clothing was
decorated with glass beads, locks of hair, or feathers.
Buffalo Moccasin
Clothing made from buffalo
skins:
leggings, loin cloth, belt,
buffalo robes, skirts for
women, necklaces
Buffalo Robe
The Seminole people lived in houses called chickees. Seminole chickees
were made of wood(palmetto trees) and plaster, and the roofs were
thatched with palmetto fiber. The Seminole villages(30 families) were built
along rivers and streams.
They also began building their
Originally, the Seminoles lived
houses on wooden stilts that
in large villages of chickees
raised the floor two or three
arranged around a town
feet off the ground. This
square with central buildings in
protected their homes from
it, like a meeting hall and a
flooding and swamp animals.
sports field.
beans
melon
corn
turkey
fish
deer
Turban for men- very colorful,
Skirts for women- shirt with cape, many beaded
necklaces, sandals