September 16, 2019• Unit Question: How does where we live

affect how we live?

• Significant Concept: Natural environments

play a major role in how people live.

HW:

Study for vocab quiz this Thursday 9/19

- Extra help Thursday morning at 7:20am

Work on Road Trip Project

Unit Test 9/26

The continent of North America has been inhabited by humans for at least 16,500 years. As early as the 1500s, early settlers and European thinkers were interested in discovering how humans had come to populated North and South America. You will be given two sources about the arrival of the first people in North America. Take notes on each of the sources in the two columns below. Notes should be in bullet form and should help you address the issue:

How did the first people arrive in North America?

Source #1 Notes:

“Study: The First Americans Didn't

Arrive by the Bering Land Bridge”

• For many years, scientists believe the first

Americans arrived here by crossing the

Bering Land Bridge from Asia.

• However, scientists now believe the first

Americans were here much earlier and

arrived along the Pacific coast.

Source #2 Notes:

“The Bering Land Bridge Theory: Not

Dead Yet”

• The Land Bridge Theory is still accepted

as a possible means for the first people

arriving in America

• What is now questionable is exactly

HOW and WHEN they did it.

• We should be open-minded about

new theories, but not be to quick to

accept them as fact.

1. Identify and explain one similarity

between the documents:

Both of these document explain how they

believe the first people arrived in North

America.

2. Identify and explain one

difference between the documents:

In Source #1, Megan Gannon argues

that the Land Bridge theory is gone,

but in Source #2, Alan Mac Eachern

believes the Land Bridge theory is still

possible.

Conclusion:

Based on the

documents, how do

you think the first

people arrived in

North America?

What information does this map provide?

Many years

ago, the

continents of

Asia and North

America were

connected by

land.

Simulation video

Describe what

you saw in the

video.

Thousands of years ago, Asia and North

America were connected by land. As the Ice

Age ended, glaciers melted and covered the

land with water.

Native American Culture Groups

As the first Americans migrated

across the continent, they began to

settle in different areas. The

geography of these areas greatly

influenced how these people lived.

A culture area is a region in which

people share a similar way of life.

The map below shows the major culture areas of North America before European arrival in 1500.

Eastern Woodland Indians

Eastern Woodlands: Examples of tribes

• Iroquois (made up of 5 nations)

–Caygua, Oneida, Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga (C.O.S.M.O.)

• Algonquin

• Huron

Eastern Woodlands: Culture Region

Eastern Woodlands

Indians lived in the forests of the northeast.

Eastern Woodlands: Culture Region

They farmed and hunted for food. They lived in longhousesmade of wood.

Eastern Woodlands:

How does where they live affect how they live?

Their environment is

surrounded by forests.

They used the wood

from trees for their

shelter.

Plains Indians

Plains: Examples of tribes

• Sioux

• Lakota

• Cheyenne

Plains: Culture Region

Plains Indians were nomadic hunters.

They lived in tepees and relied on the buffalo (bison) to meet their basic

needs of food, shelter and

clothing.

Buffalo: A “Galloping Department Store”

Plains Indians:

How does where they live

affect how they live?

The Plains Indians were

surrounded by buffalo. They

used the buffalo as a resource for

food, clothing and shelter.

Southwest Indians

Southwest Indians: Examples of tribes

AnasaziPuebloHopiNavajo

Southwest Indians lived in villages in homes made of adobeclay. They lived in the desert, so they created irrigation systems to grow their crops.

Southwest: Culture Region

Southwest Indians:How does where they live affect how they live?

Their

environment

was hot and

dry, so they

needed

irrigation

systems to grow

crops.

Thousands of Native American protesters are

currently fighting against the proposed construction of

the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota. They are

doing more than just trying to protect their land. They

are fighting for their culture—and…their future.

Advances on Indian lands have always been, and

continue to be, attacks on [native] values…members

of [native] communities throughout the United States

have rallied new resistance. Some, like the Standing

Rock Sioux in North Dakota, are challenging

[corporations taking over] lands and water…

For Native Americans, Land Is More Than Just the Ground Beneath Their Feet

Private land ownership isn’t a solution to Native American poverty.BY KEL L I M O ST EL L ER , SEP 1 7 , 2 0 1 6 , T H E AT L AN T I C

Summary:

Native Americans are protesting the construction of a pipeline by the federal government on their land.

Conflicts over the use and ownership of Native lands

are not new. Land has been at the center of virtually

every significant interaction between Natives and

non-Natives since the earliest days of European

contact with the indigenous peoples of North

America. By the 19th century, [the] federal

[government tried] to make them into farmers. The

result instead was that struggling tribes were further

[robbed] of their land. In recent decades, tribes,

corporations, and the federal government have

fought over control of Native land and resources…

Summary:

Native Americans have been battling

with the federal government over their

land for hundreds of years.