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US H ISTORY Chapter 1 – Section 3
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E ARLY N ATIVE A MERICANS Hohokam – present day Arizona Built irrigation tunnels and traded with coastal people (found pottery) Anasazi – lived in the Four Corners Pueblos – great stone dwellings Pueblo Bonito – massive apartment-like in NM Mesa Verde – cliff dwelling in CO (shelter and protection) Drought – long period without rain (reason for move) Mound Builders – PA to MS Valley Adena – hunter gatherers Hopewell (built the Great Serpent Mound) Cahokia – largest Mound Builders in IL Monks Mound – largest building north of Mex.
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O THER N ATIVE A MERICANS North – around the Artic Inuit – built igloos, wore sealskins, hunters and fishers West – using the land Tlinit, Haida, and Chinook (built wooden houses and canoes, fished for salmon) Nez Perce and Yakima (between Rockies and Cascades, fished and hunted) Pomo – Nomads that lived off the land (women gathered and made flour) Ute and Shoshone – small temporary structures Southwest – in the heat Hopi, Acoma, and Zuni – settled and farmed Adobe – sundried mud brick Apache and Navajo – hunters and gatherers Hogans – square houses
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N ATIVES C ONTINUED Plains – largely nomadic Tepee – cone-shaped skin tents Comanche and Dakota – became skilled riders of Spanish horses Southeast – our backyard Iroquois and Cherokee Federations – governments linked by different groups Iroquois women had positions of power (chose leaders) Five Iroquois Groups – (League or Confederacy) Onondaga Seneca Mohawk Oneida Cayuga
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