Native American Study Guide
*Contributes of Native Americans – respect for nature, farming methods, and art*
Powhatan
-Lived in eastern part of United States in the Tidewater Region of Virginia, near Jamestown
-Lived in longhouses made of sapling trees
-Hunted with bow and arrows
-Walked or used canoes
Lakota Sioux
-Lived in the Plains Region of the United States, between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River
-Were nomads (Followed buffalo herds)
-Nomads are people who move from place to place without a permanent home
-Hunted buffalo
-Got food and made shelter and clothes from buffalo
-Lived in teepees
-Walked or rode horses
Pueblo
-Lived in the Southwest Region of the United States
-Built homes with clay called adobe
-Homes were called pueblos which means village in Spanish
-Were farmers who grew mostly corn
-The grind stone was important to the Pueblo because they used it to crush corn
-Walked
-Built irrigation systems
-Irrigation moves water from a lake or river to a place where it is needed