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By: Jaclyn Barsa

By: Jaclyn Barsa. LONG BEFORE the white man set foot on American soil, the American Indians, or rather the Native Americans, had been living in America.

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By: Jaclyn Barsa

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  1. By: Jaclyn Barsa

  2. LONG BEFORE the white man set foot on American soil, the American Indians, or rather the Native Americans, had been living in America. It is believed that the first Native Americans arrived during the last ice-age, approximately 20,000 - 30,000 years ago through a land-bridge across the Bering Sound, from northeastern Siberia into Alaska.

  3. 2 MAIN language groups: • Algonquin • Iroquois

  4. Algonquin Tribe Al-GON-kin They inhabited most of the Canadian region south of Hudson Bay between the Rockies and the Atlantic Ocean.

  5. They were designed so they can be moved easily. Usually women worked together to build the wigwams. Homes For most of the year they lived in settled villages of birchbark houses, called waginogans or wigwams.

  6. Algonquin baby doll Dolls Dolls were usually made of perishable materials like cornhusk, palmetto fiber, or bundled pine needles. Algonquin male doll

  7. Iroquois Indians "eer-uh-kwoy" Iroquois means"rattlesnakes."  They call themselvesHaudenosauneewhich means "people building a long house."

  8. Iroquois Tribe “Five Civilized Tribe” • Mohawk 4. Oneida • Seneca 5. Onondaga • Cayuga

  9. Homes • Hold a family of 30 – 60 people • Could be 25 to 150 feet long Longhouses

  10. DOLLS Dolls were usually made of perishable materials like cornhusk, palmetto fiber, or bundled pine needles

  11. http://www.nativetech.org/games/index.php Native American Games and Toys

  12. Bibliography Native Americans – American Indians – The First People of America; History of Native American Tribes, retrieved from http://www.nativeamericans.com/ on July 3, 2007. Learn About Native Americans, retrieved from http://www.ahsd25.k12.il.us/Curriculum%20Info/NativeAmericans/index.html on July 3, 2007, Algonquin Indian Fact Sheet, retrieved from http://www.geocities.com/bigorrin/algonquin_kids.htm on July 3, 2007. The Algonquin Indians, retrieved from http://www.kateritekakwitha.org/ancestry/algonquin/algonquin.htm on July 3, 2007.

  13. Bibliography Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Indian Fact Sheet, retrieved from http://www.geocities.com/bigorrin/iroquois_kids.htm on July 5, 2007. NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art, retrieved from http://www.nativetech.org/games/index.php on July 5, 2007. Picture from slide 7, retrieved from http://www.indians.org/ on July 3, 2007.

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