1 By: Jaclyn Barsa
2 LONG BEFORE the white man set foot on American soil, the American Indians, or rather the Native Americans, had been living in America. It is believed that the first Native Americans arrived during the last ice-age, approximately 20, ,000 years ago through a land-bridge across the Bering Sound, from northeastern Siberia into Alaska.
3 1.Algonquin 2.Iroquois
4 They inhabited most of the Canadian region south of Hudson Bay between the Rockies and the Atlantic Ocean.
5 F o r m o s t o f t h e y e a r t h e y l i v e d i n s e t t l e d v i l l a g e s o f b i r c h b a r k h o u s e s, c a l l e d w a g i n o g a n s o r w i g w a m s. They were designed so they can be moved easily. Usually women worked together to build the wigwams.
6 Algonquin baby doll Algonquin male doll Dolls were usually made of perishable materials like cornhusk, palmetto fiber, or bundled pine needles.
7 Iroquois means "rattlesnakes." They call themselves Haudenosaunee which means "people building a long house." "eer-uh-kwoy"
8 1.Mohawk 4. Oneida 2.Seneca 5. Onondaga 3.Cayuga “ F i v e C i v i l i z e d T r i b e ”
9 Longhouses 1.Hold a family of 30 – 60 people 2.Could be 25 to 150 feet long
10 Dolls were usually made of perishable materials like cornhusk, palmetto fiber, or bundled pine needles
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12 Native Americans – American Indians – The First People of America; History of Native American Tribes, retrieved from on July 3, Learn About Native Americans, retrieved from on July 3, 2007, Algonquin Indian Fact Sheet, retrieved from on July 3, The Algonquin Indians, retrieved from on July 3,
13 Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Indian Fact Sheet, retrieved from on July 5, NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art, retrieved from on July 5, Picture from slide 7, retrieved from on July 3,