Natives
Which map symbol would most likely help you find the location of the Ancestral Puebloans (an Indigenous group of the Desert Southwest)?
A multi-story cliff dwelling symbol
The Eastern Woodland peoples often cleared small areas of forests to plant crops like corn, beans, and squash. What are they doing to the land and why?
Modifying (changing) the environment for agriculture.
How did Eastern Woodland people live before Europeans came over to America?
1. Alone
2. With just their family
3. In groups
4. Everyone in the tribe in one home.
3. In groups
Compare how Indigenous peoples in the Pacific Northwest and the Desert Southwest adapted to or modified their very different environments to obtain (get) food.
Pacific Northwest: Fishing, using the water to get their food. They would specifically eat Fish, Seals and Whales
Desert Southwest: Creating water systems to water crops in dry lands. They specifically ate corn, beans, and squash.
If you were looking at a map of North America prior to European contact, in which region would you expect to find Indigenous peoples who primarily used canoes for transportation and lived in longhouses
Eastern Woodland
How did the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains, who hunted bison, adapt to their environment differently from the Eastern Woodland peoples who lived in forests?
Great Plains peoples developed ways to follow herds and use all parts of the bison, while Eastern Woodland peoples cleared land for farming and used forest resources.
The governmental structures of some Eastern Woodland peoples, like the Iroquois Confederacy, involved who?
Representatives from different clans or tribes coming together to make decisions.
A map shows a diverse group of Indigenous peoples living along the Columbia River and coastal areas, primarily focused on fishing and whaling. This distribution most strongly suggests the region is where?
Pacific Northwest
Compare the environmental modifications made by the Eastern Woodland peoples (e.g., slash-and-burn agriculture) with those made by the Indigenous peoples of the Desert Southwest (e.g., complex irrigation canals). Why would these people modify their lands?
Eastern Woodland people would modify their land to create farmland and hunting grounds. Desert Southwest people would modify their land so they could get water in their dry land so they could water their crops.
What relationship did the Eastern Woodland People have with the Earth?
They believed the land was a living entity that provided for them, and in return, they had a responsibility to care for it.