1. Native Americans

2. Native American groups expanded all the way down to Central America
Present day Mexico was known as “Mesoamerica”
Large Civilizations
Maya, Aztec, and Incas (South America)
Present day US did not have large civilizations
Spread out
Diverse lifestyles
Native Americans in North America were organized into regions based on where they lived

3. Native Tribes in the US
Communities were often large but most groups were diverse and spread out

5. Culture Tribal Units Connection with nature Spiritual
Chief or leader
Connection with nature
Spiritual
Multiple “Gods”
Men hunted and fished
Women tended to the crops and worked in the households
No written language
Did not believe in division of property

6. The Northwest Coast Oceans and rivers Built permanent villages
Salmon
Fish
Built permanent villages
Status= closeness to the village’s chief
Possessions showed social status
Blankets, shells, skins, canoes
Athabaskan Haida, Tlingit, Penutain, Chinook, Tsimshian and Coos

7. The Plateau Small villages by rivers Fishing for salmon and trout
Gathered berries, roots, and nuts
Columbian exchange brought horses
Idaho, Montana, Eastern Oregon and Washington

8. The Southwest Arizona, New Mexico Parts of Colorado, Utah, and Texas
2 separate lifestyles
Sedentary farmers
Corn, beans, and sqush
Pueblos – stone
Hopi, Zuni, and Yuma
Nomadic
Hunting and gathering
Raiding other communities for their crops
Hogans – mud and bark
Navajo, Apache

9. The Plains Siouan, Cheyenne, Arapaho Settled Hunters and farmers
Later became nomadic
Hunters- teepees

10. Southeast Humid, fertile, agriculture region
Maize, beans, squash, tobacco
Market villages – known as hamlets
Cherokee, Chickasaw, Seminoles, Choctaw, creek
5 Civilized tribes

11. The Northeast
Iroquois v Algonquian
Aggressive
Lived on rivers
Farming