1. First Americans How did they get to America? Where did they live?
How did they use their environment to meet their basic needs?

2. They were here first The Land Bridge Theory
Over 14,000 years ago, during the Ice Age, people began to arrive in North America. They followed their food source.

3. Where did they live?
These people spread over the continents of North America and South America.
They lived in all Geographic regions of North America.

4. We will study 5 different groups of First Americans.
Each group lived in a very different environment

5. 3 Questions to answer What region did each group inhabit?
What was the climate and geography like for each group?
How did the geography and climate affect the way each group met their basic needs?

6. Crazy Apes In Green Raincoats Baking Cookies Carefully.
Remember the 8 Geographic Regions ?
Crazy Apes In Green Raincoats Baking Cookies Carefully.

7. What are Geography & Climate?
What the land looks like…flat, mountainous, hilly…
What the weather is like over a long period of time

8. List 3 Basic Needs
FOOD
CLOTHING
SHELTER

9. Starting in the East Meet the Iroquois
This group inhabited northeast North America in an area known as the Eastern Woodlands.
Their environment was heavily forested.
They lived in the Appalachian Mountain and Interior Lowland Regions.
Meet the Iroquois

10. Where Are We?

11. The Land
Thick forests
Fertile soil
Many rivers
Seasons

12. Conclude: How they met their Basic Needs:
FOOD:
Did they
Hunt Fish Cultivate Gather
Yes, the Iroquois used all of these methods

13. What kinds of food did the Iroquois eat?
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Corn Beans Squash
Small game deer
Fish berries

14. Clothing & Shelter Animal Skins Wood
What natural resources were available to meet these needs?
Clothing?
Animal Skins
Shelter?
Wood
Their shelters are called Longhouses.

15. The Iroquois Iroquois Longhouse A typical Iroquois village
Interior of a Longhouse

16. Unique Characteristics
The Iroquois used slash and burn to prepare their land for farming.

17. Moving West… What Geographic Region are we now in?
Describe the Geography & Climate

18. Region- Great Plains
Geography- flat land gradually increasing in elevation westward. Grasslands few trees located between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains
Climate- Seasons

19. Where Are We?
The Sioux

20. The Land

21. The Great Plains

22. Basic Needs Conclude, using what you know about their environment:
Food
Hunt Fish Cultivate
Clothing
Animal skins or Plants?
Shelter
What natural resource did they use?

23. Answer: Walking Wal-mart
The Sioux hunted.The women harvested corn.
Example: Bison
Their clothing was made of animal skin.
Their shelter was made of animal skin: a tepee

24. Unique Characteristic
The Sioux were nomadic.
The Sioux moved to follow their food source. (No permanent address)

25. Moving West… Meet the Pueblo people Located in the southwest
Present day Arizona & New Mexico
Meet the Pueblo people

26. Region- Basin & Range
Geography- Areas of varying elevation, containing isolated mountain ranges, and Death Valley There were not many trees. The soil was sandy.
Climate- Hot and dry, not much rain

27. Where Are We?
The Pueblo

28. The Land

29. Describe the Climate and Geography
What was the climate like?
Describe the land.
Were there forests?
What river runs through this region?

30. The climate was hot and dry
The land was varied, with mountains, cliffs, and basins.
There were few trees.
The Colorado river runs through this region. It helped carve the Grand Canyon in present-day Arizona.

31. What natural resource did they use?
Basic Needs
Conclude, how the Pueblo people managed to survive in this harsh environment.
Food
Hunt Fish Cultivate
Clothing
Animal skins or Plants?
Shelter
What natural resource did they use?

32. Food CBS They cultivated their food. (farmed)
CORN BEANS SQUASH
(GREW SURPLUS AND STORED THE EXTRA FOOD)

33. Clothing
PLANTS
They cultivated cotton.
They wove the cotton.

34. SHELTER They used stones and mud to make adobe bricks.
There homes were called Pueblos by the Spanish.

35. Unique Characteristic
The Pueblo people dug irrigation ditches to bring water to their crops.
They made pottery.
They wove cloth.

36. Moving West & North…(it’ too hot!)
Located along the Pacific coast in present-day Washington state and Canada
Contains the Cascade Mountains
Columbia River located here

37. Region- Coastal Range
Geography- Rugged mountains and fertile valleys, located along the Pacific Ocean, forests
Climate- Rainy and mild

38. Where Are We?
The Kwakiutl

39. The Land

40. It's Raining... It's Pouring Let’s Talk Climate:
Rainy (This area gets a great deal of rain.)
Ocean Currents (Influence the climate, making the temperatures mild)
It's Raining...
It's Pouring

41. What natural resource did they use?
Basic Needs
Conclude, how the Kwakiutl people managed to survive in this environment.
Food
Hunt Fish Cultivate
Clothing
Animal skins or Plants?
Shelter
What natural resource did they use?

42. ___ ___ ________ ____ ______
Food
Mostly they FISHED. (Salmon)
They ate other foods of course.
___ ___ ________ ____ ______

43. Bark-The Next Louis Vuitton
Clothing
They used plants. (Cedar bark)
They also used Animal skins.
Bark-The Next Louis Vuitton
Native dancer
A cedar bark cape.

44. SHELTER They used plants to build their shelter. (Trees)
Their houses were called Plank houses.

45. Unique Characteristics
They held lavish parties called
“Potlatches”.
They carved Totem Poles.
They traded
They stored their food.

46. Tools Of The Trade Above: Trading boat Below: Tools
Above: Fishing net Below: Drying rack

47. Moving North… Name this region. Hundreds of lakes carved by glaciers
Wrapped around the Hudson Bay in a horseshoe shape
Oldest rock formations in N. America
Hills worn by erosion
Name this region.

48. Region: Canadian Shield
What is the climate like?
It’s COLD!
Frozen tundra, with temperatures below freezing much of the year

49. Where Are We?
The Inuit

50. The Land

51. What natural resource did they use?
Basic Needs
Conclude, how the Inuit people managed to survive in this cold environment.
Food
Hunt Fish Cultivate
Clothing
Animal skins or Plants?
Shelter
What natural resource did they use?

52. Food The Inuit fished and hunted. Their main food was fish.
They also ate: Whales, seals, walrus, and caribou.

53. Clothing
They used animal skins and furs.

54. SHELTER They used ice blocks to make their shelters.
Their shelters were called Igloos
They also used animal skins to make skin tent shelters.

55. Inuit harpoon

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