NC Indian Tribes

NC Indian Tribes

by Everett Williams

​Regions

​There are 3 regions in our state:

​The Mountain Region

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​The Piedmont

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​and the Costal Plain

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Multiple Select

Which of these are regions of North Carolina?

• Coastal Plain

• Piedmont

• Great Plains

• Mountain

Poll

Which region of North Carolina do you live in?

• Coastal Plain

• Piedmont

• Mountain

Each region in our state was thehome to different tribes of Native Americans.

​The Cherokee

• The Cherokees were the largest Native American group living in the Mountain Region.

• Cherokee means

  • Cherokee means “Speakers of another language”

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  “Speakers of another language”

• ​The Cherokees spoke a language in the Iroquoian language family.

• “Osiyo” = hello

  “Wado” = thank you​

• ​http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEXKjyqTw1o&feature=share&list=UUuqKGb4re9a5TssItxrTw6Q

​Cherokee society was divided into seven clans and was democratic.

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Open Ended

What does democratic mean?

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• ​Cherokee girls and women worked in the fields, prepared food, made baskets, and took care of the children.

• Cherokee boys and men hunted and fished.

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• ​Cherokee villages held the Green Corn Ceremony to give thanks for a good harvest.

Open Ended

What type of structure do you think the Cherokee lived in?

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• ​Cherokees built large, sturdy, rectangular homes for shelter.

• ​A hole in the roof let out smoke from the fire pit below.

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• ​The Catawba's were the largest group of Native Americans living in the Piedmont Region.  There were between 5,000 and 6,000 members.

• ​“The People of the River”

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• ​The Catawba's spoke the Siouan language and the Catawba language.

• ​“Hawoh” = thank you

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• ​The Catawba government was democratic.  All members of the community would meet and discuss problems.

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• ​The Catawba people hunted, gathered food, and farmed.

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• ​Catawba lived in small villages along the river.  They made round houses.

Open Ended

What do you think the purpose of the wall around the village was for?

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• ​One tradition was called “The Three Sisters,” which was planting beans, corns, and squash in the same mound of dirt.

Multiple Choice

Which of these is NOT one of the "Three Sisters Crops" planted?

• Corn

• Beans

• Squash

• Carrots

Open Ended

What do you think a Native American living in the coastal plain looked like? How did they dress?

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• ​Tribes in the Coastal Plain Region included: Hatteras, Roanokes, Croatoans, Secotans, Pamlicos, and Tuscaroras.

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• ​The Coastal Plain Native Americans spoke the Algonquian languages.

• ​The Algonquian languages can still be heard in English today:chipmunk, raccoon, pecan, hickory, skunk, and succotash are all Algonquian words.

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• ​The government was democratic.  The chief of the tribe would make the final decisions.

​They hunted with bows and arrows.

• ​Shells were cut and made into strings of beads called wampum.  Wampum was traded for other goods.

• ​They fished using weirs to trap fish.

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• ​A cultural tradition was making pottery.  Clay was used, mixed with crushed shell bits to make bowls, pipes, and arrowheads.

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• ​Their villages were along the rivers and sounds.  They built longhouses made of wooden frames with rounded roofs covered with bark or grass.

Multiple Choice

True/False: Villages where built along the water

• True

• False

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Poll

Do you have Native ancestry in your family?

• Yes

• No

Poll

How do you feel about Native Americans of North Carolina?

• Bad

• Fair

• Good

• Great