NATIVE AMERICANS
Using your Native Americans Cultures notes from yesterday, make as many observations you can about Native Americans in general. Start your sentence(s) like this: Most Native Americans… WARM-UP (IN PAGE 38 TOP)
Title: Early Native Americans in Utah Essential Question: What was life like for Utah’s earliest inhabitants? SET-UP CORNELL NOTES (IN PAGE 39)
The story of Utah’s Native Cultures is one of adaptation & migration Adaptation: changing the way we do things in order to survive to a changing environment Migration: moving from one place to another to survive ADAPTATION & MIGRATION
Prehistoric Native Americans are those that lived before European explorers & missionaries were around to write about them Most of what we know about these Prehistoric Natives was found near Wendover in Danger Cave & Hogup Cave PREHISTORIC NATIVE AMERICANS
Paleo-Indians are the earliest people of North America Paleo means very ancient These early Native Americans were hunter-gatherers They made spears and hunted large mammals They gathered seeds, roots, nuts & plants PALEO-INDIANS
After the Paleo-Indians came the Archaic (ancient) Indians Often called “Desert Gatherers” Lived here for 6,000 years THE ARCHAIC INDIANS
Timed their moves with seasons so they could find food and survive all year long Their shelters were called wiki-ups, which were made of tree branches & limbs (covered with Earth) Various baskets were made for different purposes (drying food, gathering & carrying things & even storing water) Main weapon: atlatl (spear thrower) THE ARCHAIC INDIANS
ATLATL VIDEO
ANASAZI VIDEO
FREMONT VIDEO
HISTORIC NATIVE AMERICANS
After the Fremont & Anasazi cultures (AKA Ancient Puebloans) disappeared, “historic” natives moved into the region Historic Natives: those that were around when European explorers, trappers & missionaries came to the region These Europeans would record information about the Natives in their diaries, journals & letters HISTORIC NATIVE AMERICANS
Utah’s historic natives belonged to bands (or “clans” to the Navajo) The bands were part of larger groups called tribes During the time of the explorers, the Utes were the largest tribe All 5 of Utah’s historic native tribes spoke different languages & had different cultures & rituals BANDS TRIBES
Tribal lands were very important and were often protected from outsiders The land was used by everyone in the tribe Land provided food, building materials, clothing & art materials for all native peoples THE LAND