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SOCIAL STUDIES UNIT
Sydney Cox
Mrs. Thomas 3rd Grade
WHO LIVED IN NORTH AMERICA FIRST?
Native Americans
NATIVE AMERICANS
A Native American is any member of the peoples living in North or South
America before the Europeans arrived.
Native Americans are grouped into tribes.
Members of a tribe share the same land, culture, language, religion, and customs.
Tribes are also grouped into regions or culture groups.
Northwest Coast / Far west
Plains
Eastern Woodlands
Southwest
NORTHWEST COAST This region is along the Pacific Coast. Moderate temperatures (no extreme
temperatures) Thick forests
NORTHWEST COAST Tribes
Nez PerceShoshone
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
NORTHWEST COAST Native
Americans in the Northwest Coast lived in longhouses.
Those who traveled, also lived in teepees.
NORTHWEST COAST The Pacific Ocean
offers the Native Americans plenty of fish.
They trapped salmon in the rivers and hunted large sea animals, like whales, in the ocean.
NORTHWEST COAST The Native
Americans were great wood carvers. They carved totem poles to place outside of their houses.
Totem poles were used to tell the family’s history.
NORTHWEST COAST After the Native
Americans adopted some European techniques, they began to make clothing out of wood pulp and cotton.
NORTHWEST COAST A common custom for Native
Americans in this region is to hold a potlatch. The host would give gifts to their guests.
Those who had the most possessions to give was seen as the wealthiest and the most powerful
PLAINS REGION
PLAINS This region is between the Rocky
Mountains & the Mississippi River.
The land is flat and grassy with few trees.
Hot Summers Cold Winters
PLAINS Tribes
LakotaCheyenne
Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
Morning Star
PLAINS Native
Americans in the Plains region live in tipis.
Tipis allow the Native Americans to travel and follow the buffalo.
PLAINS Native
Americans in the Plains region hunt buffalo.
They follow the buffalo herds as they travel across the plains.
PLAINS Headdresses
were worn by honored men.
Headdresses vary from tribe to tribe.
They are earned by brave deeds.
PLAINS Native
Americans in the Plains region wore animal skins and moccasins.
PLAINS Not all the tribes in the Plains region spoke the same language.
They developed a sign language to communicate with each other.
SOUTHWEST
SOUTHWEST The Southwest
region includes Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Mexico.
Desert Extremely Dry
SOUTHWEST TribesApacheNavajo
Geronimo
Manuelito
SOUTHWEST Native Americans in the
Southwest region lived in pueblos of adobe buildings.
Adobe is the mixture of sand, clay, and water. This is mixed with sticks and straw to make the walls.
Some tribes such as the Navajo, lived in hogans.
Pueblos
Hogans
SOUTHWEST Native
Americans in the Southwest region hunted buffalo and grew maize, beans, squash, and pumpkins.
SOUTHWEST
Native Americans in the Southwest are known for their woven blankets, pottery, and turquoise jewelry.
SOUTHWEST Native Americans
in the Southwest, like the Navajo, became cotton farmers and sheep herders. They got wool from the sheep for their clothes. They also used deerskin.
SOUTHWEST Some Native American tribes in
the Southwest believed in Kachinas, spirits of their ancestors who have come back with the clouds and the rain.
The Southwest region is also believed to be the most highly developed.
EASTERN WOODLANDS
EASTERN WOODLANDS The Eastern Woodlands
region is located between the Mississippi River and the Atlantic Coast. It also includes the Great Lakes.
This region had a moderate climate.
Lots of trees.
EASTERN WOODLANDS TribesIroquoisCherokee
Sequoyah
EASTERN WOODLANDS Native
Americans in the Eastern Woodlands region live in wigwams and longhouses.
EASTERN WOODLANDS Native Americans in the Eastern
Woodlands region hunt deer and grow crops such as maize, squash, and beans.
EASTERN WOODLANDS Native
Americans in the Eastern Woodlands created many types of baskets to store their many goods.
EASTERN WOODLANDS Native Americans in
the Eastern Woodlands region wore deer pelts and buckskins.
Pelts are animal skins that still haves the fur on it.
Buckskins are animal skins without fur.
Women also wore grass dresses.
EASTERN WOODLANDS
The Cherokee had a written language, that was developed by Sequoyah.
EASTERN WOODLANDS