Migration & Adaptation
The primary reason the first Americans migrated from Asia to the Americas.
in search of food
Objects studied by historians to learn how American Indians lived so long ago.
What are Artifacts?
The ocean or geographic feature that served as a critical resource for the Northwest Coast people.
Pacific Ocean
Because Plains Indians wore clothing made from animal hides, this was their most important economic and survival activity.
What is hunting?
How did people migrate from Asia to the Americas during the last Ice Age?
Through land bridges
This concept was considered the most important factor for the survival of the majority of American Indians.
ability to use natural resources
The American Indian cultural region characterized by a very arid, dry desert climate.
Southwest
One of the most important natural resources for the American Indians of the Eastern Woodlands.
What are trees / wood?
WHy did different cultural regions forme across North America?
They adapted to the environments in which they settled
What is one feature that American Indians shared across all regions.
Similar Language
The region that had dense, treeless grasslands and large herds of bison.
Great Plain
This development allowed most American Indians to stop migrating and settle in permanent villages.
What is farming?
The two factors that most heavily determined an American Indian group's way of life and the types of homes they built.
food sources and climate
The region where American Indians lived in towns clustered around large earthen mounds.
Southeast
A specific example of an Eastern Woodlands adaptation where the environment was altered to plant crops
burning trees to plant corn
The way most American Indians viewed their relationship with the environment.
they were a part of a community of living things
The method used by Southwest mesa people to successfully grow corn in the desert.
digging irrigation ditches