American Indians in Georgia 8/29/22

(talking about Mississpians Indians)

(BCE - Before Common Era)

• For thousands of years, American indians have inhabited the land that is now Georgia.
• Mississippian Indians inhabited Georgia from about 800 to 1600 CE, and were around when Europeans began exploring the area
• indigeous groups are Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, and MIsissippian Indians.
• Alive when the European discovered America but soon began to disappear

==Culture/ society==

• Mississipian Indians built flat- topped burial mounds and had religious ceremonies
• lived in townes called chiefdoms
• contained hundred to thousand of familes
• two ranks- elites and commoners
• Belived the cheifs to be descendants of sun god

@@Shelter@@

• cheifs lived on the tallest mounds
• preiest lived on the 2nd tallest mounds
• plaza area in the middle of village is used for ceremonies
• palisades were built around village with guard towers and trenches
• wattle and daub homes were built with stick, clay, and thatch

$Food$

• The first of Georgia’s early inhabitants to begin actual farming on a large scale
• grew maize, squash, beans,tobacco,sunflowers,pumpkins, and gathered nuts and berries.
• tobacco used for ceremonies
• they hunted animals and fished

%%Weapons and tools%%

• stone, chert, flint, wood, and bones for weapons
• accomplished craftman, creating pottery, pipes, instruments, baskets and jewely

also built farming tool, fish traps, bow and arrow, mortar, pestle and etc

^^economy^^

• traditional economy

• traded tools, weapons, pottery, beads, skins, and other goods

batering

(Talking about creeks and cherokke Indians)

==Early Georgians==

• Europeans (spanish) started exploring Georgia in 1500s
• Creek indians lived in southern Georgia
• cherokee lived in the norther part

they had similar cultures and ways of life

@@Culture@@

• settled in villages near rivers
• villiages were in larger towns protected by palisade(hugh walls)

both cherokke and creek built their towns around a central plaza that held council house for the government meetings

$Food$

• depended on wildlife and plants
• hunted wild animals like turkey and deer
• caught fish and mussels from waterways
• they grew crops like squash, corn, and beans
• gathered berries and nuts

%%weapon and tools%%

• used materials from environments to create blowgun, bows and arrows, traps, fishing spears, and hooks

also created woven baskets, flint knives, arrowheads, and stone axes

^^shelter^^

• both cherokke and creeks both had separte homes for the winter and summer.
• in the summer cherokee lived in long, rectanglar, houses with clay walls and thacthed roofs
• creeks lived in retangular homes, w/o walls so that breezes could blow through
• cherokee winter homes were smaller, rounder structure with bark roofs (known as hothouse) because they were built over fireplaces
• The creeks lived in rectangular homes with wall made of clay and moss