Kansas Journeys Chapter 2 Early people
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- 1. What animal would be most useful to the first people in
Kansas Thursday September 5th
- 2. Timeline highlights Earliest evidence of humans about 7000
BCE Climate change between 6500-3550 BCE 1300-1500 permanent
housing 1541 Europeans appear
- 3. The Earliest People The Kansa believed the Great Spirit
created humans. This is part of the Kansa Oral Tradition Oral
Tradition- Stories passed from generation to generation.
- 4. The Kansa Creation myth The "Master of Life" first created
man. His solitary life, however, caused him to cry out in anguish,
so the "Master" sent down a woman to alleviate his loneliness. A
small island created before the main part of the earth caused
frustrated the fathers to drown unwanted children, thus prompting
more compassionate mothers to ask the Great Spirit to provide more
living space. Their prayers were answered when beavers, muskrats
and turtles were sent down to enlarge the island from the floor of
the great waters, and in time the earth assumed its present
- 5. How do we know? Without an oral tradition how do we know
what groups lived in Kansas? Through the use artifacts Artifacts,
are something made or used by people in the past With artifacts we
can track the migration, and adaptation of native
- 6. Migration The first people in Kansas were big Game Hunters
Followed the large Ice Age animals as they migrated south.
Migration is the movement of things from one place to another
- 7. Big Game Hunters The is very little know about the big game
hunters Called Big Game Hunters because they hunted large mammals
like mammoths Tools have been found near mammoth remains conforming
this No known language, or what they called themselves It is known
that they domesticated dogs
- 8. Adaptation About 10,000 years ago the climate changes Over a
long period of years it becomes hotter and drier This means big
game hunters have to adapt Adaptation, is how people and animals
change to suit their environments.
- 9. Adaptation Some plants animals become extinct others change
to survive This change results in humans having to adapt as
well
- 10. Think about it In separate paragraphs answer two of the
following questions What would happen to you if you lost a major
food source? A Clothing Source Or if the temperature got
hotter