Native Americans Prior to Europeans in Americans

Northwest Tribes

People lived in longhouses or plank houses, hunted, fished, and gathered berries, with a preserved culture through totem poles.

Southwest Tribes

Included Hokokam, Anasaz, and Pueblos; developed farming techniques with irrigation systems in a dry region.

Northeast Tribes

Descendants of Adena Hopewell culture; known for hunting, farming, and forming the Iroquois confederation.

Great Plains Lifestyle

Tribes were either nomadic hunters who hunted buffalo or sedentary farmers who grew squash, maize, and beans.

Iroquois Confederation

A political union of five tribes in New York that battled rival natives and Europeans during the American Revolution.

Southeast Tribes

Included Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw; farmed corn, beans, and squash, and built permanent structural villages.

Nomadic Hunters

Great Plains tribes that moved frequently to hunt buffalo.

Sedentary Farmers

Great Plains tribes that established farming communities and traded with other tribes.