1. Michigan’s First People
Chapter 2
Lesson 1

2. Early Native Americans
Hopewell Indians
came from what is now Indiana & Ohio
2,000 years ago
What is left today: Norton Mounds near Grand Rapids, Michigan
Mound Builders: bury their dead
A burial mound at Norton Mounds, near Grand Rapids
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3. Hopewell Maps

4. Trading with Faraway Places
Obsidian, a black volcanic glass,
from either Wyoming or Idaho.
How do you think the obsidian reached the Hopewell people?

5. Diversity
Diversity is a core democratic value. It means different kinds of people living and working together. How can we see diversity long ago? Today?

6. Michigan’s First People
Chapter 2
Lesson 2

7. The Anishinabeg Indians
Migrated from Atlantic Coast to Michigan about 1,000 years ago to what is now Sault Ste. Marie
Sault St. Marie
Your
Elementary

8. The Anishinabeg Indians
3 groups:
Ojibwa(or Chippewa) – “older brother”
Ottawa – “middle brother”
Potawatomi – “younger brother”
Known as the Three Fires Confederacy (family)
This is Chief Pontiac, the most famous Ottawa chief. Did you know that Pontiac, Michigan, and Pontiac cars are named after him?

9. Map Reflection
Compare the map on the next slide with the map in your book on page 51.
Explain where the Anishinabeg Indians came from and why they settled in different areas of Michigan.
Think about what they needed from their environment to survive.
How did geography affect their path?

10. Your Elementary
Photo from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab:

11. Michigan’s First People
Chapter 2
Lesson 3

12. Migration
Moving from place to place is migration. What are some reasons tribes might migrate to different areas?

13. Where have you lived?

14. PUSH them PULL them: Why did they move?
Work in tribes to decide if the following pictures would push or pull your tribe.

15. War or Fighting

16. Nice climate

17. Lots of food

18. Sickness

19. Many resources at hand- trees, water, food, etc.

20. Colder climate

21. Trees or other resources used up

22. Peaceful neighbors

23. Tribes of the Three Fires
Patowatomi
Ojibway
Odawa

24. Tribes of the Three Fires
Patowatomi

25. Tribes of the Three Fires
Odawa

26. Tribes of the Three Fires
Ojibway or Chippewa

27. Other Michigan Tribes Huron or Wyandotte Menominee Miami Kickapoo
Fox and Sauk

28. Michigan’s First People
Chapter 2
Lesson 4
Gifts from the Tribes

29. Guidelines to live by To seek knowledge is to know wisdom.
To know love is to know peace.
To honor all creation is to have respect.
Bravery is to face the enemy with honor.
Honesty to face a tough problem is to be brave.
Humility is to know yourself as a sacred part of creation.
Truth is to know all of these things.
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30. Food and Crops
Corn
Pumpkins
Squash
Tobacco

31. Inventions
Snowshoes
Canoes
Toboggan

32. Names Mackinac Kalamazoo Menominee Muskegon Pontiac Saginaw
See page 76 for Michigan Counties with Native American Names