1. Native Americans

2. Native Americans
Many experts believe the first people to reach North America arrived from Asia as part of a migration ,across the land bridge in the Bering straight called Beringia.
Many Native American societies were organized by kinship groups and clans. A clan is made up of groups of families who share a common ancestor.
Barter, or trade, within and among Native American groups was common.
Native Americans believed it was right to use the land, but that land could never be owned or traded.
Within a 100 years of Columbus arrival nearly ½ of Native Americans were gone due to diases.

3. Arctic/Subarctic Tribes: Eskimos(Inuit), Aleuts
Food: Berries, hunted whales, walrus, caribou and seals.
Housing: Igloos or Sod Houses
Resources/Lifestyle: Lived as nomadic hunters used sleds and Kayaks

4. Northwest Coast Tribes: Coos, Tlingit, Chinook, Salish
Food: Seals, clams, halibut
Housing; Cedar plank housing
Resources/Lifestyle: Lived in villages, held ceremonial dinners called potlatches where host gave gifts to guests.

5. Southwest Tribes: Navajo, Zuni, Hopi, Pima and Acoma
Food: Deer, sheep, maize, beans and buffalo
Housing: Pueblos and Wickiups
Resources/Lifestyle: Lived in homes made of adobe used irrigation to grow corn

6. Platue Tribes: Nez Perce, Yakima, Kalispell, Flathead
Food: Salmon, Antelope, Deer, Elk
Housing: Tepee in summer, Lodges in winter
Resources/Lifestyle: Lived in small family groups, Nez Perce created new breed of horse the Appaloosa.

7. Great Basin Tribes: Shoshone, Paiute, Chumash, Shasta
Food: Nuts, seeds, berries, snakes, lizards, insects, rodents and rabbits
Housing: Wickiups
Resources/Lifestyle: Lived in small family units

8. Plains
Tribes: Blackfeet, Comanche’s, Pawnee, Arapaho, Apache, Crow, Cheyenne, Cree, Sioux
Food: Maize, beans, seeds, nuts and berries and Buffalo
Housing: Tepees
Resources/Lifestyle: Nomadic Hunters relied on Buffalo to meet basic needs.

9. Southeast Tribes: Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Seminole
Food: Deer, seafood, squash, maize beans and wild rice
Housing: Framed houses (daub and waddle)
Resources/Lifestyle: Tattoos, Black Drink, smoked Tobacco at ceremonies.

10. Eastern Woodland Tribes: Huron, Iroquois, Miami, Shawnee, Ojibwa
Food: Fish, shellfish, maize, squash, deer, maple sugar
Housing: Long houses or Wigwams
Resources/Lifestyle: Lived in villages, Lacrosse popular game, women had authority, lived with wives family.