native tribe characteristics

Southwest

-pueblo

-sedentary

-agriculture

-cliff homes(tennesse)

-arid area so relied on irrigation for agriculture of Maize

Pacfic Northwest

-Chinook

-relied on fishing agriculutre

-long houses

Great plains

-nomadic(moving)

-hunter gatherers

-Lakota Sioux

-hunting of buffaloes important

Northeast

-iriquois and aloquian

-agricultural villages'

-maize and squash

-long houses

-cheifdom

missipian culture

-cahokia(center), cherokee, hopewell

-cheifdom

-extensive trade routes

-“three sisters”: corn, squahs, beans

-fertile soil surrounding mis. river