Early Americans and the First Europeans

1.  Indigenous peoples that lived in the desert in present-day Arizona and dug hundreds of miles of irrigation channels to bring water from rivers to fields.

• Cherokee

• Hohokam

• Anasazi

• Mound Builders

2.  Indigenous peoples that lived in dwellings carved out of cliffs.

• Cherokee

• Mound Builders

• Anasazi

• Hohokam

Indigenous peoples that are also called Ancestral Pueblo.

• Hohokam

• Navajo

• Cherokee

• Anasazi

Indigenous peoples that are the descendants of the Ancestral Pueblo.

• Pima and Zuni

• Hohokam

• Beringia

• Iroquois

When the Spanish first encountered this group of indigenous peoples, they were called pueblo.

• Pima and Zuni

• Beringia

• Iroquois

• Creek

Indigenous peoples of the American Southeast that in the late 1700s and early 1800s became the only Native American people in the United States who kept written records of their own language.

• Cherokee

• Iroquois

• Anasazi

• Ancestral Pueblo

Indigenous peoples that settled in the Southwest in small villages and often got into conflicts with Pueblos.

• Beringia

• Iroquois

• Navajo

• Choctaw

Indigenous peoples that lived in close quarters and built their homes from sun-dried mud brick.

• Pima and Zuni

• Hohokam

• Iroquois

• Navajo

Indigenous peoples of the American Southeast that has seven clans.

• Cherokee

• Navajo

• Iroquois

• Anasazi

Indigenous peoples that lived near rivers in the American Midwest and Southeast and became the Native American nations known today as the Creek, the Cherokee, and the Choctaw.

• Haida

• Inuit

• Mound Builders

• Machican