Tribes
(List at least 2-3
different tribes)
Cultural Region
Southwest
Great Plains
Pueblo
Anasazi
Hopi
Apache
Navajo
Dry
Desert
Evergreens varied
Sioux
Blackfoot
Mandan
Grassland - Prairie
Canada – Texas
Dry – cold
Harsh climate (4 seasons and
tornadoes/floods)
Mississippi to Rocky Mnts
Alaska – California
Thick evergreens – Redwoods
Wet
Cold
Close to Pacific
Tlingit
Nootka
Chinook
Northwest Coast
Southeast
Northeast
(Eastern
Woodlands)
Arctic
Environment
(climate and land
forms/topography)
Foods
(vegetation and hunted
animals)
Farming – agriculture
Must use irrigation for maize, beans,
squash.
Hunt small animals – rabbits, snakes
Some tribes raid other peaceful tribes
for their food.
Hunters – deer, elk, buffalo
Some farming – corn and beans
Many animals, fishing – salmon, sea
otter, whale, gathered nuts and berries
Very little farming since environment
had everything they needed.
Cherokee
Choctaw
Chickasaw
Creek
Seminole
Swampy
Wooded
Mild climate (warm year round)
Atlantic to Mississippi river
Humid
Hunted deer
Fishing
Gathered
Farmed
Algonquian
Iroquois
Atlantic coast to Mississippi valley.
Great lakes region
Cold (4 seasons)
Wooded, wet
Some farming –squash, beans
Mainly hunting – deer, elk
Fishing
Gathering
Inuit
Aluet
Alaska – Canada
Very few plants
Further south a few forest (called
Tundra) extremely cold, snow, ice
Fishing
Caribou
Seal
Housing/Other Facts
(Other facts: something that makes
this region different than others –
cultural differences)
Raiders – Live in teepees
Farmers – live in pueblos made out of adobe (clay
bricks) or the cliffs for protection from raids
Kivas – circular ceremonial rooms
Art important – weaving and pottery.
Use the buffalo for everything – follow the buffalo
– clothing, housing, tools.
Teepees – cone shaped housing out of buffalo hide
Round lodges – round dirt homes
Little agriculture
Many resources
Trees used for
-huge canoes
-plank houses (50-300 in one)
-totem poles (family ancestry – social status) of
spirit animals
Potlaches – host shows wealth by giving away
goods.
Descendants of mound builders – burial structures
in animal shaped mounds.
Villages along rivers
Village councils
Wampum – money (string of beads)
Wigwams – small circular huts made out of limbs,
bark, and thatch.
Semi-nomadic
Wigwams – small circular huts made out of bark
and limbs
Longhouses – long rectangle buildings made of wood
– house 8-10 families.
Women high in society.
Live in hide tents and igloos (blocks of ice).
Use kayaks for transportation
Use dogs for transportation and to hunt (can sniff
out seals under ice, track caribou)