Cultural Regions
Located between the Cascade and Rocky Mountains. Hot summers and freezing rivers. Large rivers provide water to region. Trees grew only near the mountains, other areas had thick grasses and plants. The Yakimas lived in this area.
What is the Plateau Region?
Human made objects that are left behind for historians and scientists to use to help discover what life was like long ago.
What are artifacts?
In the Eastern Woodlands, the structures people lived in were made by bending small trees into a dome shaped frame. This frame was covered with mats made from birch bark trees.
What are wigwams?
Iroquois, Algonquians
What is Eastern Woodlands?
Found on a narrow strip of land along the Pacific Coast from Alaska to California. Dense fir, pine and cedar forest grew right to the oceans shore. The climate was mild but the area received heavy rain almost all year.
What is the Northwest Coast Region?
These homes were used by Plains indians. They were made from wooden poles and the skins of animals. The shelters were portable and easy to put up and take down.
What are teepees?
These containers were used by tribes in the Southwest to store food and water. They would have geometric designs and images of living creatures painted on them.
What are clay pots?
Anasazis, Hopis, Apaches
What is the Southwest?
These home were found in the southwest region. They were made out of stone and adobe and could be from four to five stories high. They looked like apartment buildings.
What are pueblos?
The Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands and the Southeast used a felled tree to make this type of water transportation.
What is a dugout canoe?
Nez Perces, Yakamas
What is the Plateau?
A deep canyon created by a river over time.
What is a gorge?
This shelter was found in the Southeast region. They were dwellings built on platforms three feet above the ground. The platform protected the houses from swampy ground. The roof was made of palmetto leaves and there were no walls.
What is a chickee?
Warriors made these out of bison hide and decorated them with fur and feathers. It protected them in battle.
What are shields?
Cheyannes, Pawnees, Comanchees, Dakotas
What is the Great Plains?
This region stretched from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean. It ran from the Great Lakes to the Ohio River Valley. Native Americans settled amongst its hills and mountains, in valleys and along sea coasts.
What is The Eastern Woodlands?
A flat topped hill area with steep sides. It is smaller than a plateau and was a geographical feature of the Southwest cultural region.
What is a mesa?
In this cultural region, the winter homes were built partially underground.
What is the Plateau Region?
Used by the Pomo in the California-Intermountain region, these tools which were made out of woven grasses and decorated with shells, beads and feathers, were used store items.
What are grass baskets?
Miwoks, Pomos
What is California-Intermountain?