SS Native Americans - 7th Grade

Native Americans

Bering Land Bridge

The Bering Land Bridge was by the top of the north-west side of the Americas. It connected Asia and the Americas together.

Aztecs

The Aztecs were in Central Mexico. Their capital was Tenochtitlan. They built temples.

Iroquois

The Iroquois were in Western NY - from the Hudson to Niagara Falls. Women were very powerful.

Nomads

People who travel/migrate to follow herds of animals for food.

Arctic Natives

Lived in igloos - ice houses. They mostly ate meat because no plants grew in the Arctic. They used kayaks for transportation.

Plain Natives

Teepees made out of buffalo hide for shelter. Their diet was buffalo, deer, and some farming. For transportation they used sleds pulled by dogs.

Iroquois Confederacy

There were 5 tribes in the Iroquois Confederacy. There was the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca and Cayuga.

Why Migrate?

People migrated to follow their food source.

Mound Builders

An early form of civilization in the Midwest Mississippi and Southeast regions. They built mounds for ceremonies and even mound city complexes. They disappeared[[eared around 10,000 years ago.

How does geography affect culture?

It affects how people live.

Maya, Aztec, Inca

Inca - Peru Capital Cuzco. Maya - Southern Mexico. Aztec - Central Mexico Capital Tenochtitlan. They had temples, cities, calendars, writing systems, etc. Was destroyed either before or after Europeans arrived.

Pacific NW Natives

Tlingit, Kwakiutl, Pomo and Clatsop. They lived in Plank Houses made out of wood. They made totem poles and canoes. They mostly ate fish, deer, elk and some farming but not a lot.

Northeast Woodlands

East coast tribes were Algonquin, Wampanoag, Abenaki, Mahican, Lenape and Huron. Lived mostly in wooden homes called longhouses. Algonquin lived in wigwams which are small wooden huts. They ate the three sisters and meat.

How was the world created.

The Iroquois believed that the Earth came from a Sky Woman. The story is that the Sky Woman’s husband pushed her down from the sky and she fell into the waters. Then animals rubbed mud onto her back and North America started growing on her back. They also believed that the Sky Women’s sons created the good and bad in the world.

Island

Land surrounded by water on all sides. A chain of islands are an archipelago.

Peninsula

Land surrounded by water on three sides.

Isthmus

A strip of land surrounded by water on two sides

Continent

A large landmass. There are 7 in the world. Asia, North America, South America, Europe, Oceania, Antarctica and Oceania.

Matrilineal

Getting traced through the mothers bloodline

Subsistence Agricultue

When farmers grow crops to meet the needs of themselves and their family on smallholdings

Baggataway

Natives name for lacrosse

Archeology

The study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.