1. Native American Vocabulary

2. Migration
30,000-10,000 years ago people migrated to America from Asia.
-Moving from one place to another to make a new home.

3. Hunters-Gatherers
-Nomadic people that followed their food. They lived off of the land
Men Hunted, Women and children gathered. Women and children produced more food.

4. Environment
-The area around you. This includes plants, animals, smells, and sounds.

5. Adaptation
-Making changes to your environment, or changing to fit your environment.
As little as snowshoes, or as big as religious mounds

6. Domesticate -taming plants and animals.
Used as workers, transportation, and food source

7. Irrigation -bringing water from a major source to your crops.
Natives of the Southwest had to irrigate

8. Slash and Burn Agriculture
-Cutting off all of the plants and burning the field.
This practice fertilizes the soil and clears the land. Things grow back bigger and better.

9. Great Law of Peace / Iroquois League
-First Constitution in America. Kept the peace in the Iroquois League.
An attempt to unite various tribes