Native Americans of Maryland

4thGrade Quarter 2 Week 1

Native Americans of Maryland

Essential Question

How did early Native

Americans and European

colonists work together?

Learning Outcomes

Today we will...

● Identify, describe and compare

early Native American societies
in Maryland

● Explain how early Native

American societies and
European settlers influenced
each other.

Materials

You will need...

● Pencil

● myWorld Social Studies

Textbook pages 104-109

● Social Studies Journal or 3

sheets of paper

Key Terms

Key Terms

● Prehistoric
● Historian
● Archeologist
● Culture
● Artifact
● Confederacy

Early People in Maryland

●During the Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago,
archeologist found evidence of Maryland Native
Americans

●The Maryland residents of this time hunted the
large animals that roamed the earth

●The climate began to warm up about 9,000 years ago

●During this warmer weather, the Native Americans
began to live near river and streams

●Fish, berries, and nuts were what the Native
Americans ate after the Ice Age

The Woodland People

●

The Woodland People lived on the East Coast
of the United States

●

The two primary languages spoken by the
Woodland people were:
○Algoquian

○Iroquois

●

The 3 largest groups of Maryland Native
Americans were:
○The Nanticoke- Lived on the Eastern Shore

○The Piscataway- Lived on the Western Shore

○The Susquehannock- Lived Inland

Meeting Needs and Wants

Maryland Native Americans:

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Lived in villages

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Lived in wigwams made of small trees,
branches, and plants

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Hunted animals, fished, and farmed

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Used the fur from animals for clothing

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Traded animal fur with other villages

Europeans Arrive in Maryland

●European explorers arrived on Maryland’s Eastern
Shore looking for a shortcut to Asia

●The explorers discovered the Chesapeake Bay

●The Chesapeake was originally called Chesepiook
which meant the “great shellfish bay” in Algonquian

●Giovanni da Verrazano is believed to be the first
person to sail and explore the Chesapeake Bay

●John Smith was the first person to create a map of
the Chesapeake Bay

Kent Island

●Kent Island is the largest island on the Chesapeake Bay

●William Claiborne set up a trading post on Kent Island
where he grew tobacco and corn and traded beaver fur
with the Susquehannock People

●William Claiborne traded with the Susquehannock People

●This was the first English settlement in Maryland with
about 100 Englishmen

●William Claiborne sent the fur and tobacco to England

Independent Assignment

1.Carefully examine the images above. Explain the relationship between the
colonists and the Native Americans.

2.Using what you know about the relationship between colonists and the
Native Americans, what do you believe the colonists were trying to gain
from the Native Americans? What do you believe the Native Americans were
trying the gain from the colonists?

3.What happened as a result of colonization or taking over of a natives land?

4.How did this experience shape culture in America?

Wrapping Up

Today We...

● Learned about the Native

Americans that lived in Maryland

● Learned about the first European

explorers of the Chesapeake Bay

● Discussed the trading post at Kent

Island