Chapter 3: California’s 1 st People

1. Chapter 3: California’s 1st People Vocabulary Culture Technology Homeland Petroglyph

2. You are there! • What Native American groups have their homeland in California? • The Native American groups are the Yurok, Hupa, Miwok, Mono, Chumash, and Kawaiisu.

3. You are there! • What tradition has stayed the same for the Mono people? • The tradition that remained the same is basket weaving?

4. The First Californians • Culture: Culture is the way of life a people shares. Culture includes language, food, arts, and beliefs. • Technology: is the use of skills, ideas, and tools to meet peoples needs.

5. Native american groups

6. Many Cultures

7. Many Cultures

8. Questions? • Look at themortar and pestle on page 96. What was it good for? • What was the technology used by the Chumash? • Read page 96. What type of technology did the Miwokuse? • Why was it important for tomols to be light?

9. Answers!!!!! • Mortar and Pestle’s were used for grinding acorns. • The technology the Chumash used were canoes or tomols. • An example of Miwok technology is the mortar and pestle. • They needed to be light so they could be easily carried.

10. The Kawaiisu Environment • Homeland: a country where a person was born or has a home. • The Kawaiisu homeland was the Mojave Desert and Tehachapi Mountains,

11. Kawaiisu Food • The Kawaiisu men hunted animals like deer while the women gathered berries, nuts, and acorns.

12. Kawaiisu art • The Kawaiisu painted designs of lines and circles on rocks. • They also created petroglyphs or carvings on rocks.

13. Kawaiisu

14. The Hupa

15. Hupa Environment • Northern California • Trinity River Valley

16. Hupa Food • Gathered nuts and berries • Fished • Hunted deer and elk

17. Hupa Crafts • Beads • Cedar houses

18. Summary • The Hupa lived in ________ and the _______. They gathered _____, _______, and _______. The also _____ and hunted ____ and ______. The Hupa made _____ and lived in _______.