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Let’s Review Native American GroupLocationShelterFoodPhysical EnvironmentCulture/Region Eastern WoodlandsFrom the Atlanticwigwamshunter-gatherersfull of forestdeep connection to Ocean to thelonghousesfarmed: corn,deers, elks, bearsanimals Mississippi beans, and squashbeaversgovernment: great including great lakes, rivers, streamscouncil lakes an Gulf of Mexico Plainslived on the Greatlodgesbuffaloflat region; grasslandsheld powwows Plainsteepeescorn, beans, squash,very dryno written language North of what is and pumpkinsused every part of the today the Canadian buffalo border to present- day southern Texas Southwestwhat is today Arizonapueblo homesirrigation systemsmostly arid and dryrain dances New Mexico, parts of grew corn, beans, Kachina dolls Colorado, & Utah squash, and cotton men governed villages women owned land
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Great Basin Native Americans Calhoun Academy
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Great Basin Legend
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Where are they located? Located between the Rocky and Sierra Located between the Rocky and Sierra mountains mountains Lived in the region east of the Northwest coast in Nevada, Idaho, and Utah. Lived in the region east of the Northwest coast in Nevada, Idaho, and Utah.
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Shelter: They lived in They lived indome-shapedstructures.
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Food Hunter-gatherers Hunter-gatherers Ground acorns into flour to make mush Ground acorns into flour to make mush They ate nuts and berries They ate nuts and berries Women and children trapped small animals Women and children trapped small animals Women prepared food Women prepared food
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Physical Environment Great Basin region is extremely arid. Great Basin region is extremely arid. Between 2 mountain ranges: Sierra and the Rockies Between 2 mountain ranges: Sierra and the Rockies No water outlet to the sea No water outlet to the sea
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Culture Shamans were the religious leaders and healers They had ceremonies honoring pine nuts Rules: each family had a headman had a headman by consensus by consensus
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Great Basin
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