2. 1 By: Jaclyn Barsa

3. 2 LONG BEFORE the white man set foot on American soil, the American Indians, or rather the Native Americans, had been living in America. It is believed that the first Native Americans arrived during the last ice-age, approximately 20,000 - 30,000 years ago through a land-bridge across the Bering Sound, from northeastern Siberia into Alaska.

4. 3 1.Algonquin 2.Iroquois

5. 4 They inhabited most of the Canadian region south of Hudson Bay between the Rockies and the Atlantic Ocean.

6. 5 F o r m o s t o f t h e y e a r t h e y l i v e d i n s e t t l e d v i l l a g e s o f b i r c h b a r k h o u s e s, c a l l e d w a g i n o g a n s o r w i g w a m s. They were designed so they can be moved easily. Usually women worked together to build the wigwams.

7. 6 Algonquin baby doll Algonquin male doll Dolls were usually made of perishable materials like cornhusk, palmetto fiber, or bundled pine needles.

8. 7 Iroquois means "rattlesnakes." They call themselves Haudenosaunee which means "people building a long house." "eer-uh-kwoy"

9. 8 1.Mohawk 4. Oneida 2.Seneca 5. Onondaga 3.Cayuga “ F i v e C i v i l i z e d T r i b e ”

10. 9 Longhouses 1.Hold a family of 30 – 60 people 2.Could be 25 to 150 feet long

11. 10 Dolls were usually made of perishable materials like cornhusk, palmetto fiber, or bundled pine needles

12. 11 http://www.nativetech.org/games/index.php

13. 12 Native Americans – American Indians – The First People of America; History of Native American Tribes, retrieved from http://www.nativeamericans.com/ on July 3, 2007. http://www.nativeamericans.com/ Learn About Native Americans, retrieved from http://www.ahsd25.k12.il.us/Curriculum%20Info/NativeAmericans/index.html on July 3, 2007, Algonquin Indian Fact Sheet, retrieved from http://www.geocities.com/bigorrin/algonquin_kids.htm on July 3, 2007. http://www.geocities.com/bigorrin/algonquin_kids.htm The Algonquin Indians, retrieved from http://www.kateritekakwitha.org/ancestry/algonquin/algonquin.htm on July 3, 2007. http://www.kateritekakwitha.org/ancestry/algonquin/algonquin.htm

14. 13 Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Indian Fact Sheet, retrieved from http://www.geocities.com/bigorrin/iroquois_kids.htm on July 5, 2007. http://www.geocities.com/bigorrin/iroquois_kids.htm NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art, retrieved from http://www.nativetech.org/games/index.php on July 5, 2007. http://www.nativetech.org/games/index.php Picture from slide 7, retrieved from http://www.indians.org/ on July 3, 2007.http://www.indians.org/