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1 Early Native Americans
Early life, Physical Environment, Culture

2 Asia Notice the possible routes that Native Americans took. Can you name some of the groups that would have formed in these different regions? Land Bridge

3 How did the first people get to North America?
The theory goes…Native Americans migrated from Asia to North America across the land bridge during the Ice Age low temperatures caused water level to drop exposing land that created a long land bridge connecting North America to Asia following herds of animals, hunter-gatherer people may have crossed the land bridge into North America and into South America

4 Pacific Northwest Great Basin Plains Eastern Woodlands Southwest

5 Eastern Woodlands location: lived in the eastern part of North America
food: farming, fishing, and hunting home: permanent wigwams and longhouses clothing: animal skins, moss and wool Religious Practices: wampum belts, connection to animals, polytheistic, animism Government: councils and clans

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7 Pacific Northwest location: Northern California to Alaska
food: hunting, gathering, fishing, whaling home: Cedar Plank Houses clothing: deerskin religious practice: Kwakiutl government: clan rule

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9 Southwest Desert location: present day Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah food: farming- used irrigation to grow crops home: permanent, Adobe clay houses and Hogans clothing: woven cloth religious practice: Kachinas, Rain Dance government: council, clan rule

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11 Great Basin location: Rocky Mountains, and Sierra Nevada Mountains
food: hunter gatherers home: pole and brush hut clothing: breech and animal skins religious practice: shamans government: clan rule

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13 Plains location: Great plains of central North America from Canada to Texas food: farming, hunting home: semi-permanent, tepees, migrated during hunts in fall and summer clothing: Buffalo skins religious practice: sun dance and ghost dance government: clan rule

14 Plains

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