1. First Americans

2. VOCABULARY VOCABULARY TEACHER DEFINITION STUDENT DEFINITION DRAWING
NOMADIC
People who search for food by traveling from one area to another are nomadic.
ADAPT
To change or get used to a new way of living in order to survive in a new environment.
BIOME
An environment or area with a unique climate, set of plants and animals.

3. VOCABULARY TUNDRA INUIT VOCABULARY TEACHER DEFINITION
STUDENT DEFINITION
DRAWING
TUNDRA
A treeless biome with a variety of moss and grasses. The ground is frozen ten months a year and swampy and wet during the summer. Winter temperatures can drop below -50. Summer temperatures rarely get higher than 60 degrees.
INUIT
People who live in the tundra and have learned to adapt to the cold weather.

4. They were here first The Land Bridge Theory
Around 20,000 years ago, during the Ice Age, people began to arrive in North America. They followed their food source.

5. 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.

6. Map

7. Your turn: MARK YOUR MAPS!
Mark the Biome/Climate
Mark the civilizations: INUIT

8. 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?

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

10. List 3 Basic Needs
FOOD
CLOTHING
SHELTER

11. North… 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

12. Where Are We?
The Inuit

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

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

15. The Land

16. THE INUIT PEOPLE
The Inuit are the aboriginal inhabitants of the North American Arctic, from Bering Strait to East Greenland, Arctic Canada, northern Alaska and Greenland, and have close relatives in Russia.
They are united by a common cultural heritage and a common language.
Until recently, outsiders called the Inuit "Eskimo." Now they prefer their own term, "Inuit," meaning simply "people.”

18. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
According to archaeological research, the origins of the Inuit lie in northwestern Alaska. These first Alaskan Inuit lived on the seacoast and tundra, where they hunted seals, walrus, whales, and caribou. They and their ancestors were the first Arctic people to become expert at hunting the larger sea mammals, such as the bowhead whale.

19. CULTURE
The Inuit were a nomadic culture that circulated almost exclusively north of the timberline.

20. Basic Needs
The Inuit people managed to survive in this cold TUNDRA environment.
Food
Hunt Fish Cultivate
Clothing
Animal skins or Plants?
Shelter
What natural resource did they use?

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

22. Clothing
They used animal skins and furs.

23. CLOTHING
Warm clothing was important to the Inuit tribes. Sealskin was usually wore in the summer. In the winter caribou skin was worn. Caribou skin was light weight yet very warm.

24. CLOTHING
One Inuit garment, the hooded coat called the parka, has been adopted by skiers and others who spend time in the cold. An atiqik is a Inuit parka made with goose down

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

26. IGLOOS AS SHELTER
An igloo translated sometimes as snow house, is a shelter constructed from blocks of snow, generally in the form of a dome
Other Inuit people tended to use snow to insulate their houses which consisted of whalebone and hides. The use of snow is due to the fact that snow is an insulator (due to its low density). On the outside, temperatures may be as low as -49 °F, but on the inside the temperature may range from 19 °F to 61 °F when warmed by body heat alone

27. HOUSING
They also lived in houses made of driftwood and sod, and almost certainly spoke an early version of the Inuit language, Inuktitut.
That picture shows how they moved. They could move with their house on sled.

28. LANGUAGE
Inuktittut, the language used by the Inuit in the eastern Arctic, had no written form until one was developed by a missionary in the 1800's. The language is written in syllabic symbols corresponding to groups of sounds.
EXAMPLE

29. Inuit harpoon

30. NEXT READ THE ARTICLE “PUT ON YOUR EARMUFFS” TAKE NOTES AS YOU READ
QUIZ TOMORROW!!!!

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