1 / 8

American Indians

American Indians. By : Dylan, Jacob, Noah, JP. Big ideas. American Indians have affected American life in many ways. Today we still use the names they chose for many rivers. We`ve also named some of or states with the American words for those areas.

parley
Download Presentation

American Indians

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. American Indians By: Dylan, Jacob, Noah, JP

  2. Big ideas • American Indians have affected American life in many ways. • Today we still use the names they chose for many rivers. • We`ve also named some of or states with the American words for those areas. • American Indians were the first to grow many of the foods we eat today.

  3. Foods • Vanilla and jerky. • Jerky is made out of dried meat. • Vanilla is made out of a vanilla bean.

  4. Words • Here are the words that they brought: tepee, tomahawk, hammock, skunk, tomato, avocado. • Tepee means: A native American tent; usually of conical shape • Hammock means: a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting

  5. Cool stuff • Moccasins, parkas, toboggans, pottery, jewelry, baskets, beadwork. • Toboggans keep your head warm in the winter. • The meaning of pottery: the craft of making earthenware. • The meaning of beadwork ornamentation with beds. • The meaning of parkas. a kind of heavy jacket.

  6. Other gifts • Powwows , legends and myths , dogsleds. • A powwow is a conference or a meeting. • A legend is a story that has a little historical truth • A myth is a story that was made to explain why curtain things happen.

  7. Dragons • Dragons are mythical creatures that can live in fire. • there fire is 12x as hot as the sun. • If the dragon is enraged it will burn you.

  8. Big Foot • Big foot is an overgrown sasquatch. • Big foot is 12x as strong as a human is. • Big foot is a LEGEND.

More Related