Early Americans

Early American, Ancient Cizilations, and Native Americans.

By B. Harper.

Mound Builders

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-G_6nU6d4w

• LOCATION: East of Mississippi River

• HOMES: Wigwams

• ADAPTATION TO ENVIRONMENT: Trade

• OTHER FACTS: Built mounds for burials, religious purposes, and to honor animal spirits.

• Students: Can you think of anything else?

Anasazi

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJt7aNhDNw8

• LOCATION: 4 Corners

• HOMES: Cliff dwellers, apartment style buildings

• ADAPTATION TO ENVIRONMENT: Irrigation, dug ditches to carry streams to crops

• OTHER FACTS: Mysteriously disappeared (drought theory)

• Students, can you include any other facts?

Inuit

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfZEJw08p8M

• LOCATION: Near Artic Ocean (Present day Canada & Greenland)

• HOMES: Igloos

• APAPTATION TO ENVIRONMENT: Hunted whales, walruses, and seals; Used kayaks and igloos

• OTHER FACTS: Used kayaks for hunting and transportation

• Students: Can you think of any other information?

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