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Native American Cultures

Native American Cultures. SW, Pacific Coast, Great Plains. Zuni, Hopi, Apache, and Navajo descendants of Anasazi and Hohokam “Pueblo peoples” corn, squash, and beans. I. The Southwest. boys, 6, joined kachina cult kachina – good spirit.

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Native American Cultures

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  1. Native American Cultures SW, Pacific Coast, Great Plains

  2. Zuni, Hopi, Apache, and Navajo • descendants of Anasazi and Hohokam • “Pueblo peoples” • corn, squash, and beans I. The Southwest

  3. boys, 6, joined kachina cult • kachina – good spirit kachinas supposedly visited town each year, messages from gods – wearing masks and dancing helped bring the spirits to town

  4. Hopi House

  5. coastal forests, lumber • homes, canoes, totem poles II. The Pacific Coast

  6. Redwood National Park

  7. legends, cultural beliefs, art no restrictions on vertical order never objects of worship Totem Poles

  8. These people did not practice agriculture, they fished in rivers like the Columbia for salmon.

  9. Columbia River Gorge...Oregon

  10. Nez Perce and Yakima occupied land between Cascades and Rockies Cascade Mountains

  11. Shoshone and Ute, between Sierra Nevadas and Rockies, more nomadic because land was too dry and food scarce Shoshone Falls

  12. III. The Great Plains • influenced by Hopewell and • Mississippian • lived near Missouri and other • rivers III. The Great Plains

  13. Sioux – followed buffalo and lived in tepees

  14. How did life change for the Sioux and others after the Spanish introduced horses?

  15. Sioux warriors took scalps of enemies • greater glory came with the “counting coup” – charge towards the • enemy and touch one with a stick (humiliating)

  16. Far North, NE, SE

  17. IV. The Far North • Aleut, Aleutian Islands • Inuit (Eskimos), Alaska • to Greenland

  18. hunted seals and caribou • kayaks and dogsleds • lamps - whale oil for fuel

  19. dwellings - igloos

  20. V. The Northeast • 2 language groups – Algonquian and Iroquoian • among first to encounter English settlers • Huron, Erie, Mohawk

  21. slash-and-burn agriculture – cut forests, burned cleared land, left with rich soil

  22. longhouses – barrel-shaped, covered with bark

  23. wigwams – houses used by Algonquian Indians…means “house” in the Abenaki tribal language

  24. wampum belts – designs recorded events

  25. The Iroquois League Hiawatha • war often erupted among Iroquoian groups • late 1500s – Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk formed this alliance, peace • Great Binding Law – constitution that defined how confederacy worked • chiefs were men, women who headed kinship groups selected them

  26. most lived in towns • central plaza, earthen walls VI. The Southeast

  27. Cherokee was largest group • western N.C. and Tennessee • 20,000 when Europeans arrived

  28. Smoky Mountains

  29. Statue of Sequoyah outside the Museum of the Cherokee Indians, Cherokee, North Carolina

  30. The Natchez lived in the Southeast as well and now have a parkway named after them.

  31. Natchez Trace Parkway

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