WHO AM I?
This South Carolina Native group called itself Ye Iswa, meaning “People of the River.”
Catawba
This staple crop helped Mississippian communities support larger populations.
Corn
An object made or used by people that helps us study the past.
Artifact
Spanish missionaries used this organized system of settlements to try to convert Native peoples to Christianity.
You see river cane forming the frame of a wattle-and-daub house. Name one other natural material likely needed to finish the walls.
Mud, clay, or earth used to make the daub
This culture built organized chiefdoms; Cofitachequi is a famous South Carolina example.
Mississippian homes made from river cane or branches covered with a mud-like mixture used this building method.
Wattle and Daub
The study of past people through physical remains and evidence.
Archaeology
This caused the most widespread destruction of Native populations after European contact.
European Diseases
Why does a carefully built wattle-and-daub house support the idea that Mississippians lived in permanent settlements?
It took time and labor to build and was meant to stay in one place.
This European group built Charlesfort, an early South Carolina settlement that failed.
The French
Each Cherokee clan was led by these two chiefs.
The red and white chief
Native to a place; belonging to the original peoples of a region.
Indigenous
This European power made its first attempt at a North American colony on Roanoke Island.
Roanoke
A historian finds one artifact. Why should the historian avoid making a definite claim about an entire culture from that object alone?
One artifact needs context and additional evidence; more than one explanation may fit.
This Native group is believed by historians to have once lived near the Great Lakes before moving south.
Cherokee
Farming and food preservation helped create this extra food supply, which supported population growth and permanent settlements.
Surplus
The ability of the body to resist a disease after exposure or protection.
Immunity
Why did European diseases such as smallpox cause so many deaths among Native Americans?
Native populations lacked immunity to many European diseases.
Give one likely benefit AND one likely challenge of a wattle-and-daub home.
Benefit: local materials, shelter, insulation. Challenge: weather damage, repairs, fire, or decay.
This group moved north from what is now Florida into South Carolina in the late 1600s after losing lands to war and settlers.
Yamassee
This important Mississippian chiefdom in South Carolina was visited by Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.
Cofitachequi
The spreading or scattering of a people away from their original homeland.
Diaspora
What three terms describe the major reasons for European colonization?
God, gold, glory
A source says Native communities were scattered into several regions but their descendants and traditions continued. Which concept best explains the scattering?
Diaspora