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Do now: Write a min of 5 lines. Which native cultural region have you found most interesting and why? You must have 2 clear ideas underlined wont get credit.
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Today, I will be able to annotate the Lenape natives reading and answer the reading comp. Questions.
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Today, you’ll be allowed to retake your 50 states if you weren’t happy with your results, but we will be moving forward in class. * (take notes and identify elements of culture)
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Homework: Read the article on the Lenape natives and answer the questions.

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What defines a group’s way of life.
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Social Organization: Loosely defined social classes, low, middle, high
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Customs and Traditions: Hot Dogs and Fireworks on the 4 th of July. Remembrance of 9-11-01
Religion: Judeo-Christian roots, but freedom to practice mostly anything.
Language: Not official  English
Arts and Literature: Highly valued
Forms of government: Currently, democratic-republic, originally republic
Economic systems: mixed (parts socialism and free enterprise)

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Make sure your name is on the paper.
Level 0 when the test is out (it’ll be assumed that you’re cheating)
Don’t help people cheat (cover up your work)
Eyes on your paper (your cheating)
Cheating will result in a 0 and a call home!
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Don’t leave anything blank, don’t quit, everyone has a brain…Use it!!!!
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Once your test is completed: Review yesterday’s notes on elements of culture, last night’s reading (identify the elements of cultures for the arctic and subarctic), and begin reading: Northeast, Southeast, and Plains (identify the elements of cultures).

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These people were heavily influenced by their environment.
Eskimo-Aleut language family
Population small and scattered
Inuits  nomadic hunters
Aleuts  settled, small fishing villages
Homes made of sod/timber, in the extreme north  Ice.
Seal and otter skins were well insolated and waterproof.

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Swampy, piney forests  colder region  inland
Alaska and Canada.
Western: Athabaskan speakers
Eastern: Algonquian speakers
Used toboggans, snowshoes, and lightweight canoes for travel.
Sparsely populated
Small family groups hunted caribou  lived in easy to move tents. Also lived in underground dugouts.
Europeans interaction: economic/cultural shift from subsistence living to profit living

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Northeast cultural area
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Iroquoian speakers lived along inland rivers and lakes. Enjoyed politically stable villages and were more populated than the Algonquian. Iroquois were more warlike than the Algonquian.
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Algonquian lived in small farming and fishing villages along the ocean.
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Both were eventually forced to pick sides regarding a conflict between the British and
French.

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Entrenched agrarian culture.
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Organized social structure around hamlets
(small ceremonial and market villages)
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Contained the 5 “civilized” tribes.
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Eventually forced to relocate throughout the
1830s, regardless of how well they assimilated to American culture.

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Several languages were spoken in this region.
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Settled hunters and gatherers (that’s a lot of
‘ers’
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After European contact and the introduction of horses this group becomes more nomadic.
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Traded goods with Europeans and Americans, rapid loss of culture.

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Population varied from sedentary farmers to nomadic forgers/raiders.
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Sedentary populations made sturdy pueblos
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Nomadic tribes made hogans

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Shoshonean and Uto-Aztecan dialects were spoken in this region.
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Mobile society, struggled obtaining permanent sustenance.
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Mobile homes
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Leadership/social groups were very informal and fluid.

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Heavily populated (hey just like today!)
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>200 dialects spoken in this region.
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Linguistic landscape incredibly complex, more so than even Europe.
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Not much farming, small family-based bands of hunter-gatherers “tribelets”
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Generally peaceful