The varied cultures of Native Americans

How did people inhabit North American?

Main Ideas Addressed

How and why did man begin to settle down and begin to develop communities?

How environment impacts culture and lifestyle.

How does surplus impact technology?

VocabularyMigrationSurplusIrrigationSupplimentCulture Tidewater regionCoastal PlainPiedmontMountainsMatrilinial

How did people get here?

Land Bridge Theory

Ice Age caused Ocean levels to drop.

Herds of animals moved across land bridge.

Hunter Gathers followed herds as they traveled to hunt them.

People began to spread out across North America

How did people get here?

1.Paleo Indians: use the land bridge to travel

2.Archaic Indians: seasonal travel & discover the territory

3.Woodland Indians: villages begin and people settle down in smaller areas

4.Mississippi Indians: tribes begin and regional differences develop. Lots of evidence is left in order to study these people.

Four Stages of Mans Settlement

How did Man stop moving?Man stop moving and

began to plant their food to supplement hunting.

Irrigation: watering crops by channeling water from rivers and streams.

Began to grow a surplus: more food than they needed to survive.

Started Farming Then What?

Culture: means way of life

Culture area, regions in which groups of people have a similar way of life.Having

shared beliefs

Different cultures developed based on peoples environment.

Different Native American Cultures in North American

Great Plains: Farming, and hunting buffalo, lived in earth lodges, and tepees made of animal skins.

Eastern Woodlands: Eastern U.S. Hunting, farming, wooden homes, gathered berriesAlgonquianIroquois

Southeast: Hot humid, farming and hunting

Far North: Arctic Area, hunters, snow homes

Northwest: Groups from Southern Alaska to Northern California, roamed fests, gathered, fished, permanent homes.

Far West: Variety of climates Variety of homes, from pit homes, cone shaped houses, wooden houses

Southwest: Desert like, farming, Built large Adobe, (sun dried brick) homes and apartments

Power Point Quiz

What is the name of the theory that explains how human arrived in North America?

  What weather event made the movement of man possible?

What determines culture?  What is a Hunter Gatherer?  What did man begin to do that stopped him from moving?  What is surplus?  How did surplus impact culture?

How does surplus impact technology?

First People and the Regions

North Carolina

Chapter 1: The Lay of the Land

Section 1: The Tidewater Region

Section 2: The Coastal Plain Region

Section 3: The Piedmont Region

Section 4: The Mountains Region

North Carolina has 4 Regions

North Carolina Regions Tidewater: Islands, Barrier Islands (outer banks),

Capes: Fear, HatterasSounds:Albemarle, Pamlico

Coastal Plain: prime agricultural region, Sandhillsgrowth of tobacco towns

Piedmont: Red clay soil, fall line, more manufactoring

Mountains: Appalachians run from NY to AlabamaMt Mitchell highest point, continential divide Early settlers isolated in valleys

Major Tribes in North CarolinaAlgonquin Tribes: These tribes all spoke the

Algonquin language;Chowanoc, Pasquotank, WaccamawLive along coast, depended on fish fruits nuts

Tuscaroralive along Neuse and Tar riversConnected with Iroquois Nation of New York

Catawbalargest group, lived in piedmont connected to the Sious tribes of the Great Plains

CherokeeLived in North Carolina mountains

Native American Beliefs and HabitsFamilies or clans were connected through the mothersMatrillineal

Tribes governed by consensus, majority agreement on rules

Nature was respected and at center of beliefs

Everything changed for the Native Americans when European Nations began to explore

Timeline: How does movement effect the technology of the people?