Native American Power Point By Mrs. Erwins Class

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Native American Power PointBy Mrs. Erwins
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Where they lived.

• The Makah Indians lived in the state of
  Washington.

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What type of house did they live in?

• The Makah people built longhouses. The
  Longhouses are long, rectangular houses. Fifty or
  more people often lived in each house. The
  Makah people built their longhouses out of cedar
  boards. Each house had benches, beds, and fire
  pits. Some Makah families carve wooden house
  poles in front of their homes. Carve means to
  shape wood by cutting it. The house poles showed
  the histories of their family.

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What type of food they ate and the type of
clothing

• The Makah ate salmon, halibut, walrus,
  seals and hunted whales and deer. They made
  clothing with deer skin. They picked berries.
  They caught shellfish and ate them. They ate
  seaweed they dug out of the sea. They caught
  seagulls to eat them. They picked black
  berries off bushes. The Makah
  shirts,skirts,hats,robes, were made from cedar
  bark. Shoes didnt matter. The Makah went
  barefoot. The Makah wore leather moccasins for
  special occasions like potlatches. The Makah
  wore snowshoes during the winter. This made it
  easer for the Native American to hunt in the
  winter. The snowshoes where made out of wood
  and sometimes of rawhide. These were
  different shapes and sizes and used
  depending how deep the snow was. Some
  snowshoes had names like swallowtail, bear
  paws, or beaver tail.

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What did they make their tools and cooking items
from?

• Tools were made from the materials
  that grew around the area. The coastal tribes in
  Washington and Oregon used cedar wood for
  everything from canoes to dishes.They made armor
  out of wood to protect them in the forest.Coastal
  people further north had fewer materials to
  use.Their tools were made from bone ,hide ,ivory
  ,and rock. Coastal Indians made tools that were
  not only useful, but were beautiful.Tools not
  only made peoples lives easier, but brought
  pleasure to those using them. Natives found
  creative uses for materials. They had things
  called candlefish made from dried and charred
  fish. The kind of fish used was bony and oily so
  they gave off lots of light.

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What was their traditions - religion?

• The Makah people had their own religion.
  They followed a set of spiral beliefs.The Makah
  religion said all things in nature had
  spirits.The spirits provided everything the Makah
  needed to live.The Makah religion taught Makah
  people to respect nature. They did not take more
  than they needed. The Makah gave thanks to the
  spirits. They gave thanks for the food, clothing,
  and shelter nature provided. Today, some Makah
  people practice the traditional Makah
  religion. Others follow Christianity.
  Christianity is a religion based on the
  teachings of Jesus Christ. Some Makah people
  follow the Indian shaker religion. This religion
  combines the Makah religion and Christianity.
  

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Where they lived.

• The Anasazi lived in the state of
  Colorado.

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What type of house did they live in?

• The Anasazi built villages in cliffs. These
  groups of homes could be four to five houses
  tall. Floors were made of hard clay.The walls
  were thick with no outside doors or windows.
  Homes were box shaped and built in rows. This
  also kept shelter from enemies. The pueblos used
  ladders to enter their homes. They built homes
  from adobe or sandstone. Adobe is clay. Pueblos
  formed wet adobe into large blocks. The blocks
  hardened as they dried in the sun. Pueblos cut
  sandstone blocks from the ground.

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What type of food they ate, and the type of
clothing

• In the summer both men and women wore
  skirts woven from yucca fiber. Young children
  usually wore no clothes. In the winter time
  blankets and clothes were made from turkey
  feathers and rabbit. The men and boys caught
  rabbit and speared deer, bison , and wild sheep
  to eat. They grew corn, beans and squash. These
  three plants were known as the three sisters.
  They also planted cotton and tamed wild turkey.
  They used stone to grind up corn to eat.

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What did they make their tools and cooking items
from?

• The Anasazi carried everything by hand or on
  their back. Their tools were made from bones and
  stone. They were basket makers. They stored
  food in the baskets. Men and boys used nets to
  catch rabbits and spears for larger animals.They
  used a lot of stone and adobe but very little
  wood. They used stone to grind up corn and pots
  to carry water to their pueblos.

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What was their traditions - religion?

• The pueblo religion taught respect for
  nature and people.They understood that nature
  provided all the things necessary for life.They
  believe that people must work together. They
  built kivas for a group of men who were related
  to use for religious ceremonies. Kivas were round
  with a fireplace in the center of the floor, and
  a smoke hole in the roof. This hole was a spirit
  hole where they believed the first people entered
  the world. The people believed in kachinas. They
  were strong spirits that controlled nature. They
  thanked and prayed the kachinas for their
  families, homes and crops. Thy prayed to kachinas
  in their kivas

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Where they lived.

• The Sioux lived in the states of
  Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota. The Sioux
  nation is very large. Seven tribes make up The
  Sioux nation the name Sioux means snake or
  enemy. The Sioux lived in tepees. The tepees were
  made from many poles. The pole were covered with
  animal skins. The animal skins were usually
  buffalo hide. The reason why the Sioux live in
  tepees is because when the buffalo move they need
  to move too. It easy to move tepees. Sioux
  clothing was made from buffalo hide and other
  animal skins . The skins were dyed many different
  colors. The Sioux used berries leaves grasses
  and flowers to make the dyes. Sioux women wore
  fringed dresses. They decorated their clothes
  with porcupine quills horse hair and beads .Men
  wore fringed shirts and breech clothes. In the
  winter they wore fur robes and legging. Both
  men and women wore moccasins. Buffalo was the
  only thing they had to eat. They ate fresh
  buffalo meat. They also dried and stored meat
  for the winter.

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What type of house did they live in?

• The Sioux lived in tepees that they
  could pick up and move on a travois to follow the
  buffalo. The women used sinew to sew the buffalo
  hides together to make the tepee covering. They
  also decorated the tepee with symbols.The tepee
  could hold up to six people. On hot days the
  sides of the tepee was rolled up.

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What type of food they ate, and the type of
clothing

• They ate corn, beans, squash,and buffalos.
  They made clothes and blankets from buffalo
  skins. Women and men wore moccasins and in the
  winter they wore gloves and heavy robes so they
  could be warm . The Sioux had a busy village
  life. The men hunted buffalo . The women made the
  tepees . Both men and women taught the children
  the ways of the Sioux .

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What did they make their tools and cooking items
from?

• They used bones, wood from a tree, clay,
  buffalo horns, and painted stones for cooking
  items and tools. Buffalo bones were also used
  to make tools for farming, scrubbing, and sewing.
  They use bladders to carry water and bones for
  tools like sewing needles and scrapers.

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What was their traditions - religion?

• The Sioux religion and tradition was called
  the Sacred Pipe. They believed in a spirit called
  the White Buffalo Calf Woman. Sioux Indians
  also believed in the Great Spirits. They smoked
  tobacco in a pipe. The Sioux gave it to the
  leaders. Few Sioux Indians still practice the
  Sacred Pipe. Some do ceremonies to praise the
  spirits. They also dance to worship them.

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Where they lived.

• The Mohawk lived in New York . The
  homeland of the Mohawk lies near the Hudson River
  in what is now Eastern New York State.

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What type of house did they live in?

• The Mohawk lived in a longhouse. The
  longhouses were at least two hundred feet long!
  The Indians longhouses were built near forests,
  and rivers or lakes. A longhouse was long with a
  rounded roof. Men built a longhouse by bending
  trees. The trees made a frame. Then the men
  covered the frame with tree bark.

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What type of food they ate, and the type of
clothing

• They hunted, fished, and gathered
  food. The Mohawk men hunted deer, elk,
  ducks, and geese. The women made clothing
  household tools. They also farmed, cooked,and
  stored food for the winter . The women raised
  crops such as corn, beans, and squash. These
  crops are called the three sisters. The three
  sisters were then cooked into a dish called
  succotash.

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What did they make their tools and cooking items
from?

• They made all their tools and ornaments
  from the raw materials around them. The men made
  all of their tools and weapons. They fashioned
  arrowheads with flint, jasper or slate. They set
  round stones into wooden handles to make war
  clubs. The trees in the forest also supplied wood
  for carving dishes. The men carved wooden bowls,
  ladles, and spoons. They sewed leather by
  punching holes in it with a bone owl which is a
  pointed tool. Mothers and Grandmothers used
  cedar bark rushes, corn husks, and cattails to
  weave mats and storage bags. Some women made
  coiled clay pots for cooking and storage.
  
  

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What was their traditions - religion?

• The Mohawk religion is called longhouse
  religion. A religion is a set of spiritual
  beliefs people follow. The coast Mohawk people
  had their own religion. They believed there were
  many spirits.One was the Great Spirit. Animals
  and many things in nature had their own spirits.
• Some worshiped as many as 300 different
  spirits. Not many Indians believed in heaven or
  life after death They gave thanks to the spirit
  by dances and songs.

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