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Lesson 3 Early Regional Cultures

Lesson 3 Early Regional Cultures

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Lesson 3 Early Regional Cultures

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Early Regional Cultures

  • Indian cultures differ from one region to another

  • 4 basic groups

  • Woodland

  • Mississippi River (Mississippian)

  • Great Plains

  • Pacific Nothwest

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Woodland Indians and Adena Burial Mounds

  • Woodland Indians lived east of the Mississippi River

  • Lived in forest areas near streams and lakes

  • The Adena and Hopwell were Woodland Indians

  • Hunter/gatherers and mound builders

  • Adena built burial mounds with small log rooms inside

  • Adena lived in villages of less than 500 people

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Hopewell People's Snake Mound

  • Farmers; barley, sunflowers and squash

  • Snake Mound - 17 feet long

  • Mouth swallowing a huge egg

  • was a symbol of growth and change



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City of Cahokia

  • Largest settlement of Mississippians in North America (20,000 people)

  • Located where 3 rivers come together: Missouri, Illinois and Mississippi Rivers

  • Planned city with public buildings, surrounded by a palisade (wooden fence)

  • Mound builders, built 120 mounds

  • Monk's Mound - largest mound in North America

  • By 1500, people of Cahokia had disappeared

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City of Moundville

  • Mississippian settlement built on high bluff overlooking Black Warrior River

  • In center of settlement was 26 earthen mounds

  • Large supply of maize, or corn

  • Made excellent pottery, coper pieces, and stonework

  • By 1500 Moundville was abandoned


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Why were Iroquois Important

  • Descended from the Mississippian Indians

  • 6 tribes called Iroquois created peace treaty called "Great Law of Peace"

  • Organized themselves into a democracy

  • Their great leaders Hiawatha and Seneca still remembered for their great speeches

  • When Europeans arrived, Iroquois were most powerful Indians in North America

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Great Plain Indians

  • Place of flat grasslands, rivers, streams and a few mountains, not many trees

  • Summers hot and dry, winters very cold

  • Plain Indian tribes were Sioux, Cheyenne, Comanche and Blackfoot

  • Hunted buffalo


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Pacific Coast Indians

  • Pacific Coast Indians had access to seafood, especially salmon

  • Woods filled with wildlife, nuts, berries and root vegetables

  • Pacific Coast Indians always had enough food

  • Built longhouses

  • Showed their wealth through potlatch - giving away gifts

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Inuit

  • Eskimos "eater of raw meat"

  • Intuit meant "real people"

  • Hard lives, lived in harsh frozen environment

  • Built shelters out of blocks of ice called igloos

  • hunted sea mammals and caribou

  • known for delicate carvings of ivory and soapstone

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