Indigenous Peoples
These people were the first to live in North America before Europeans arrived.
Who are Indigenous peoples / Native Americans?
This is a large area of land with common features like climate and plants.
What is a region?
This is what Native Americans used to hunt animals.
What are bows and arrows?
A group of people living together with shared rules is called this.
What is a society?
ACT IT OUT
Show how someone hunts (no talking)
This group of Native Americans lived in the Northeast and formed a confederacy.
Who are the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)?
This region is known for cold weather and forests.
What is the Northeast?
This was a common type of home for some tribes.
What is a wigwam / longhouse / tipi?
To change how you live based on your environment is called this.
What is adapt?
WOULD YOU RATHER: Team with most convincing argument wins.
Live in a longhouse or a tipi? Why?
Native Americans used this natural resource to build homes, tools, and canoes.
What is wood?
People who move to a new land to live there are called this.
What are colonists?
Native Americans grew crops like these.
What are corn, beans, squash?
A meeting or agreement between groups is called this.
What is a treaty?
True or False: Native Americans all lived the same way.
False.
This is what we call the deep respect Native Americans had for nature.
What is living in harmony with nature?
This landform is a large body of flowing water.
What is a river?
Families and communities worked together to do this.
What is survive / share resources?
Goods traded between people are called this.
What are resources?
Name 3 things you learned in this unit.
Answers vary
Name one way Native Americans adapted to their environment.
Answers can vary (WHAT IS: hunting, farming, clothing, shelter, etc.)
Why were rivers important to early people?
Answers vary (WHAT IS: transportation, food, water)
Name one role people had in Native American communities.
Answers Vary: What is hunting / gathering / farming
This means to take control of land and settle there.
What is colonize?
Create a claim about Native Americans in 30 seconds.
Best claim wins!!