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1 Native American Regions

2 The Great Basin How would you describe these climates?

3 Great Basin Region

4 Shoshone Tipi What do you notice about this structure? http://www.greatdreams.com/native/nativehsg.htm

5 Pauite Wikiup What do you notice? A wikiup is a cone-shaped house covered with brush or mats made of tules. http://talkingtree.org/2007/09/11/wikiup/

6 Southern Pauite Home FIGURE 16.—Tapeats, one of Powell's Southern Paiute informants, outside his house near St. George, Utah. Photograph by J. K. Hillers, 1873, from Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Collection http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/geology/publications/pp/670/sec3.htm

7 Describe the Great Basin environment, climate, geography? Describe the Great Basin Native American dwellings? How does the climate, environment, and geography impact the Great Basin Native American dwellings?

8 Native American Regions

9 Great Plains How would you describe this climate? Short Grass Prairie in the Eastern Plains Tall Grass Prairie in the Western Plains

10 Native Americans of the Plains

11 Cheyenne Tipis http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/C/CH030.html

12 Arapaho Tipi What do you notice about this structure? http://www.thefewgoodmen.com/thefgmforum/thread s/the-native-american-indian-wars.158/

13 Describe the Great Plains environment, climate, geography? Describe the Great Plains Native American dwellings? How does the climate, environment, and geography impact the Great Plains Native American dwellings?

14 Native American Regions

15 Northeastern Woodlands Describe this climate

16 Northeastern Woodland Region

17 Powhatan Village IMAGE: The Town of Pomeiooc by John White (1585–1586). (©The Trustees of the British Museum. All rights reserved)The Town of PomeioocJohn White

18 Iroquois Longhouse What do you notice about this structure? http://ed101.bu.edu/StudentDoc/current/ED101fa10/jferraro/Woodland_Shelter.html

19 Ojibwe Birchbark Wigwam (1900) What do you notice about this structure? http://www.firstpeople.us/photographs2/Birch-Bark-Wigwam-Ojibwe-1900.html

20 Describe the Eastern Woodlands environment, climate, geography? Describe the Eastern Woodlands Native American dwellings? How does the climate, environment, and geography impact the Eastern Woodlands Native American dwellings?

21 Native American Regions

22 Southeast Woodlands Describe this environment

23 Southeast Region

24 Seminole Chickee What do you notice? http://www.semtribe.com/Culture/Chickee.aspx

25 Replica of Cherokee Winter House What do you notice? They were made of tree branches bent into a circular shape and then plastered with mud http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/northamerica/before1500/architecture/cherokee.htm

26 Cherokee Asi House Replica of Cherokee Asi House being built by archeologists Asi houses are made by weaving river cane, wood, and vines into a frame, then coating the frame with plaster. The roof was either thatched with grass or shingled with bark

27 Replica of Natchez Asi House Reconstruction of a Natchez house (foreground) and granary, at the Grand Village of the Natchez National Historic Landmark in Natchez, Miss. http://www.lakotawritings.co.uk/native_shelters.htm#Wigwams

28 Describe the Southeast Woodlands environment, climate, geography? Describe the Southeast Woodlands Native American dwellings? How does the climate, environment, and geography impact the Southeast Woodlands Native American dwellings?


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