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Brainstorming

EQ: What are the characteristics of the Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, and the Mississippian Indian Cultures?. EQ: What are the characteristics of the Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, and the Mississippian Indian Cultures?. Brainstorming.

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Brainstorming

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  1. EQ:What are the characteristics of the Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, and the Mississippian Indian Cultures?

  2. EQ:What are the characteristics of the Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, and the Mississippian Indian Cultures?

  3. Brainstorming With your partner, quietly discuss the stereotypes of Native Americans and how they been portrayed in American History. Write down your groups ideas in your composition notebook. Think of movies, cartoons, commercials, books, stories, etc.

  4. Stereotypes of Native Americans Have we been lied to our entire lives about who they really are?

  5. Stereotypes of Native Americans • Someone wearing feathers • Someone living in a tipi • Someone who makes a "whooping" sound • Someone to associate with Thanksgiving and the pilgrims • People who never waste anything • People who respect the land and never harm anything • People who are often seen in the wild or portrayed as animals or part of the land • Fought like the “brave”

  6. Stereotypes continued • Smoked the “peace” pipe – say there was never peace and that narcotics were never in the peace pipe. • People who worship nature • That every one chose an animal name or had a animal spirit as protector • Native are lazy and not motivated • Always associated with handcrafts – dream , jewelry, Stereotype that all Indians were the same • A lot of the ideas mentioned above are all ideas that are found in Mainstream America.

  7. Things we have heard • "Sit like Indians" • "You act like a bunch of wild Indians" • "I'm dressing like an Indian for Halloween" • "You're an Indian giver" • "Too many chiefs, not enough Indians“ • Have we (American history/society) turned Native groups into simply movie roles and costume ideas?

  8. Earliest Native Americans • Where did they come from? • How did they get here? • When did they get here?

  9. BERINGIA! • At least 10,000-15,000 years ago • Land bridge was formed Coined “Beringia” • Came from Asia

  10. Before “Contact” Native Americans • Paleo • Archaic • Woodland • Mississippian • What was the cultural evolution of these Americans? • Complete Chart

  11. Paleo Indians • Migratory Patterns: • Roaming hunters • Housing: • Temporary housing

  12. Paleo Indians • Tools & Weapons: • Atlatl: 2 ft. long wood shaft with a spear on the end/Simple tools • Food: • Mammoth • Bison • Nuts and wild berries • Over hunted large animals causing extinction

  13. Paleo Indians • Culture: • 1st Indians in North America • Beringia: • A narrow strip of land that use to connect Alaska & Russia

  14. Archaic Indians • Migratory Patterns: • Settle in one place • Housing: • More permanent • Small camps • Social Structure: • Larger groups/ communities

  15. Archaic Indians • Tools and Weapons: • Grooved Axe • Food: • Berries, nuts, and fruit &…

  16. Whitetail Deer Turkey Bear Shellfish Opossum Rabbit Fox

  17. Archaic Indians • Cultural Aspects: • 1st signs of clay pottery • Decorative stone and bone pieces

  18. Woodland Indians • Migratory Patterns: • Settled in villages • Housing: • More sturdy structures • Social Structure: • Tribes are formed

  19. Woodland Indians • Tools and Weapons: • Bow and Arrow is invented • Food: • Small game: • Small animals such as rabbit & squirrel • Nuts • Fish

  20. Woodland Indians • Cultural Aspects: • Burial mounds in the shape of animals • Markings on pottery

  21. Mississippian Indians • Migratory Patterns: • Large tribes near rivers • Housing: • Groups of houses of wood and clay surrounded by Palisade (tall wooden wall) & moat (wide ditch w/ water) • Social Structure: • Chiefdom: villages ruled by a priest-chief

  22. Mississippian Indians • Tools and Weapons: • Stone weapons & farming tools

  23. Food: • Agriculturally advanced Tobacco Maize (corn) Squash

  24. Mississippian Indians • Cultural Aspects: • Flat-topped burial mounds • Ear ornaments • Tattoos • Feather and copper headdresses

  25. Mississippian Indians

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