Introduction

Who are Native Americans? Where did they come from?

There are six Native American Cultural areas:

Name at least 3 of the 6 areas

Trade

• A. The region that includes parts of Mexico and Central America

• B. To exchange goods for other goods or money

• C. The region in the far north around the North Pole

• D. Something found in nature that is useful to humans, such as water to drink, trees to burn and build with, and fish to eat.

Mesoamerica

• A. To exchange goods for other goods or money.

• B. The region in the far north around the North Pole.

• C. Something found in nature that is useful to humans, such as water to drink, trees to burn and build with, and fish to eat.

• D. The region that includes parts of Mexico and Central America.

Artic

• A. The region in the far north around the North Pole

• B. To exchange goods for other goods or money.

• C. A flat area of land that is covered with grass in the middle of North America

• D. The region that includes parts of Mexico and Central America.

Great Plains

• A. Something found in nature that is useful to humans, such as water to drink, trees to burn and build with, and fish to eat.

• B. I didn't listen so I don't know.

• C. A flat area of land that is covered with grass in the middle of North America.

• D. I think NASA is fun and I am learning a lot about Native American Culture.

Then- In 1492, explorer Christopher Columbus said from Spain across the Atlantic Ocean looking for a route to India to TRADE for spices. When he landed in North America, he thought he was in India, so he named the people he met Indians.

Q: What are Native people called today?

• A. Native Americans

• B. First Nations

• C. Aboriginal People

• D. All of the above

A ______ is a huge sheet of ice and snow

• A. Land Bridge

• B. Bering Strait

• C. Glacier

• D. Ice Age

This was a period of time when ice covers a large part of the earth.

Someone from your family or culture who lived before you.