Native American Tribes

Inuit, Aleut, Tlingit

Arctic tribes

Crow, Cheyenne, Sioux

Great Plains tribes

Shoshone, Ute, Paiute

Great Basin tribes

Iroquois, Shawnee, Lenape

Northeast tribes

Cherokee, Seminole, Creek

Southeast tribes

Pueblo, Navajo, Apache

Southwest tribes

Chumash, Chinook, Pomo

Pacific Northwest tribes

Arctic

Mostly hunted and ice-fished, homes were insulated with rocks or ice

Great Plains

Farmers and hunters, hunted bison, lived in portable tepees

Great Basin

Hunter-gatherers, nomadic, mainly hunted bison

Northeast

Hunters, gatherers, farmers, fishers, lived in bark domes or longhouses, celebrated crop festivals

Southeast

Settled villages near good soil and water, farmed crops such as corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers

Southwest

Farmed crops such as corn, beans, and grasses, used irrigation systems, made homes of stone and sun-dried clay

Pacific Northwest

Ate fish and sea mammals, lived in wood houses, moved each season, and carved totem poles