1. Peoples and Societies of the North
By Zach, Louis, Natalie, Savanna

2. Important Northern Tribes
Pueblo and Navajo
Iroquois
Mound-Building Peoples

3. Pueblo and Navajo
Located ins several regions of North America in a hot and dry environment.
Agricultural economies with settled societies.
Crops of maize was 80% of their diets
By 700 c.e. began to construct stone and adobe buildings.

4. Iroquois Peoples
Woodlands east of the Mississippi River (Upstate New York).
Large-scale agricultural societies with settled communities
Lived in longhouses where several related families lived together.
Women were in charge of longhouses.
By 1400 the five Iroquois nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca) had emerged from the Owasco society.

5. Mound-Building Peoples
Built enormous earthen mounds for ceremonies and burials
Largest mound at Cahokia, Illinois, which was used for ceremonies and a trade center
Fifteen thousand to thirty-eight thousand people lived in Cahokia society during the twelfth century
No written language