Landscapes
The landscape of this region could be harsh with few resources. Some tribes here never really settled. The culture of these tribes grew out of their nomadic lifestyle. They followed the enormous herds of buffalo that moved with the seasons. The buffalo provided them with everything they needed, including food, clothes, and the tepees they lived in. It is believed that, at one time, more than 30 million buffalo roamed parts of North America. Some of the tribes living in this enormous area of grassland did not have an abundance of trees to use for building. Instead, some homes were made out of soil, grass, and roots, whereas others were made out of animal hides and were called tepees.
What is the Great Plains?
a right someone has because he or she was born into a specific group or family, or because it is a right of all people belonging to that group.
What is Birthright?
How were Native Americans in this region affected by the Gold Rush in Oroville?
When the pioneers moved in and carved up the land into farms, Native Americans' way of life would have been disrupted.
The landscape was the wide prairies of southern Montana with a little river including a creek with rainbow trout.
The Ancestral Pueblo lived in this region with dry valleys near smaller rivers or waterways. Some lived on raised plateaus and mesas. The trees that grew on these high, flat lands provided both shelter and wood. Whether they lived on the mesas or in the valleys, they learned how to farm with a small water supply. This tribe built tall homes with clay bricks and stone. Eventually they learned how to build solid homes that were several stories high. It would have been an amazing sight to see these stone structures blend in so well with the environment! These native people became known for their stonework, their basket weaving, and their pottery. They carefully wove baskets, coated them with mud, and then baked them in the sun. These baskets could then be used for cooking, carrying water, and storing harvested crops. They planted cotton and used it to make lighter, more comfortable clothing to stay cool in the hot sun.
What is the Southwest Region?
a separate area of land in the United States set aside for Native Americans to live on.
What is a reservation?
How were the lives of Native Americans in California different before 1911 and after 1911?
Before 1911 there were no other members of the Ishi, they were starving and scared. After 1911 Native Americans were pushed aside to make way for railroads, goldmines, farms, towns and cities.
Why were scouts important at the Battle of Little Big Horn?
They gathered information about the enemy and reported it to Custer.
In this region, the Iroquois made the forests their home and utilized the abundant natural resources available to them. Freshwater rivers and lakes and imposing mountains and forests colored the landscape. The landscape and seasons helped shape the Iroquois culture. Where trees were abundant, the Iroquois built longhouses out of wood and bark that provided warm shelters during the cold and snowy winter months. In the spring, the Iroquois cleared the land of trees and shrubs and planted corn, beans, and squash. Frequent rain helped the crops grow. In the wintertime, when food was scarce, many Iroquois left their villages to hunt deer and rabbits in the forests. Tribes often lived near water. It was a source of life, and it provided a means of transportation. They traveled these waters in dugout canoes and fished using nets and traps.
What is the Northeast Region?
The process of becoming part of a society or culture.
What is assimilation?
What events both intentional and unintentional affected Native Americans?
Europeans brought diseases like small pox and totally wiped out the Native Americans. European settlers came to California for land which forced them to move.
Why didn't Custer take the advice of the Arikara and Crow Scouts?
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He misjudged the strength of the enemy because he only saw the edge of the village, he was known as a reckless leader.
In this region, trees grow as tall as mountains and everything tribes needed to survive was readily available in the forests and waters. Cedar trees grew in abundance in this region. The tribes would build plank houses using long, flat planks, or boards, from these trees. The tribes had a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, but they did not need to move around in order to find food. They did not need to farm, either. A very important food source for most tribes was salmon. Some tribes fished using baskets, nets, spears or harpoons, and a variety of ingenious traps to catch salmon. Salmon are only available a few months each year, so the rest of the year people needed other sources of food. To supplement their diet, men hunted the big mammals that roamed the rainforests. Women gathered roots, berries, and grains, including wild rice. Many tribes also hunted other types of fish, as well as whales and seals.
What is the Pacific Northwest Region?
The traditions and beliefs that are unique to a specific group and handed down generation to generation.
What is heritage?
What are acorns?
What led to the Black Hills war?
The federal government gave the Lakota a deadline to return the land at the reservation but they did not.
What was so important about the landscapes?
Native Americans used it as their way to live, hunt and as resources.
A tradition or behavior that is common among a group or family; a ritual.
What is a custom?
The most important skill in this region.
What is weaving?
What part of the landscape made it hard to attack?
The river was a barrier between the Lakota and the U.S. soldiers.