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The Earliest Americans

The Earliest Americans. “It is the land that we obtained the timber and stone for our homes and kivas.” - Hopi, quoted by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. in 500 Nations, 1994. The First Americans. What is an Ice Age?

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The Earliest Americans

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  1. The Earliest Americans “It is the land that we obtained the timber and stone for our homes and kivas.” - Hopi, quoted by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. in 500 Nations, 1994

  2. The First Americans • What is an Ice Age? A long period of freezing cold, where the Earth’s climate became so cold that huge, slow-moving sheets of ice called glaciers formed and covered large parts of the Earth.

  3. The Bering Strait Land Bridge Theory • Why did hunters make their way into the Americas? They followed the animals as they made their path through the glaciers.

  4. Origin Stories The Blackfoot people tell a story of Old Man the Creator. According to the story, he made the animals and plants and formed the prairies and mountains.

  5. The Hurons tell an origin story that begins when water covered the Earth. According to the story, land was formed from a tiny bit of soil taken from the claws of a turtle.

  6. Ancient Indians • Hunters and Gatherers • Clovis Point

  7. A Time of Change Cause: The climate of North America slowly changed, becoming drier and warmer. Effect: the vegetation that the giant animals ate could no longer grow Effect: the giant animals became extinct, or died out Effect: life no longer centered around the hunting of giant animals

  8. Changes in Native American Life • The Bow and Arrow • Storage of access food • Planted seeds and grew crops • Formation of Tribes

  9. Early Civilizations Olmecs Mound Builders Mayas Anasazi

  10. The Desert Southwest The Pueblo People Hopis Kachina Doll Zuni

  11. Navajo

  12. The Northwest Coast and the Arctic The River Traders The Chinooks

  13. The Kwakiutls The Makahs Inuit

  14. The Plains • Native American hunters wore animal skins as disguises.

  15. Mandan Earth Lodge Pawnee Scouts

  16. Mandan Bull Boat

  17. The Eastern Woodlands Wigwam Powhatans Wampanoags (wam puh NOH agz)

  18. Iroquois Village

  19. Compare and Contrast The Plains Indians The Northwest Coast Indians Differences Differences They depended on whales, seal, walrus, and caribou for food and clothing. They depended on buffalo for food, shelter, tools and clothing. Similarities Both groups used natural resources to meet their needs. The NW Coast Indians lived in villages made up of long rows of wooden houses and in winter, igloos. Many of the Plains Indians were nomads, they moved from place to place. They made boats out of buffalo hides. They made boats out of large, hollowed-out logs.

  20. Resources • Harcourt Horizons, United States History: Beginnings • http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/rss/media/nova-v-20070216.m4v • http://www.history.com/media.do?action=clip&id=mc_arrows_broadband • http://inkido.indiana.edu/w310work/romac/plains.html • http://www.eckstein.seattleschools.org/elmiller/ss/land_bridge/ • http://www.ancestral.com/cultures/north_america/navajo.html • http://www.ushistoricalarchive.com/indians/photos/ct05005.html

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