Native Americans

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Native Americans
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Eastern Woodland Tribes
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The Eastern Woodland Area is located from Canada
in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south
and from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the
Mississippi River in the west.
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This area contains coasts, rivers, lakes,
mountains, valleys, plateau, and low plains. The
entire region was covered in forests.
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The people were divided into 3 groups

• Algonquian and Great Lake Tribes
• Iroquois
• Creek Confederacy

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The Algonquian group lived in the northeast. They
were mostly hunters, but did some farming. They
made clothes from elk and deer hides.
The Algonquian group lived in wigwams.
They loved to make dreamcatchers.
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The Great Lake Tribes were in the northeast. They
were hunters, farmers, and ate wild rice. Their
clothes were made from elk and deer hides. The
Indians in the Great Lake region lived in wigwams.
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The Iroquois tribes lived in the northeast. They
were hunters and farmers.
Their clothes were made from deer skin.
The Iroquois lived in longhouses.
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The Cherokee and Seminole Indians belonged to the
group called the Creek Confederacy. They lived in
the southeast and were farmers and hunters.
They lived in homes made of wood and/or thatch.
Their clothes were made from hides and plant
fibers.
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Southwest
Indians
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The Southwest region covered the area which in
now Utah and Colorado through Arizona and New
Mexico into parts of Texas and California. This
area contained steep-walled canyons, plateaus,
and sandy deserts. To the south were
mountains. Four rivers run through this area the
Rio Grande, Colorado, Gila, and Salt.
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The Pueblos lived in the southwest. They were
farmers growing mostly corn.
They lived in pueblos. These were a type of
apartment building made of clay.
Their clothes made from cotton.
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The Navajo lived in the southwest. In the early
years they were hunters and trappers. Later the
Navajo became shepherds and farmers. Their
clothes were made from hides. Later they copied
the clothes of Mexicans.
The Navajo became expert weavers.
Navajo Indians lived in hogans.
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The Apache lived in the southwest.
Their clothes were made from deer hides. Later
they copied the clothes of Mexicans.
They were raiders and hunters.
They lived in a thatched wickiup. They had one in
the mountains and one in the desert.
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Northwest
Coastal
Tribes
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The Northwest Coastal Indians lived in what is
now Alaska along the Pacific Ocean down the coast
to Northern California. This area contains small
islands, deep inlets, and narrow beaches.
Mountains rise to the shore. Thick forests of
spruce, cedar, and fir cover the land. Many
rivers and streams cross this area.
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The Northwest Coastal Indians lived in the
northwest. They were fishermen, hunters and
gathered food from the forests.
The Northwest Indians lived in plank homes. They
placed totem poles in front of their homes.
Little clothing was wore in the summer. In the
winter they made clothing from fiber, and skins,
and basket hats.
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The
Far
North
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The Far North area is covered with ice and snow a
large part of the year.
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The Inuit people(Eskimos)lived in far north. They
made their clothes from seal and caribou hides.
They were fishermen and hunters.
Inuit people made igloos when out hunting. Their
more permanent homes were built of stone and
earth.
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Plains Indians
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The Plains area reached from the Mississippi
River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to
Mexico. It was hotter than 100 degrees in the
summer, and could drop to 40 degrees below zero
with heavy snows in the winter. This region was
so dry that when it rained it often flooded. The
rolling land was covered with grassland and a few
mountains. Few Indians lived on the Great Plains
before white men brought the horse in the 1600s.
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The Plains Indians lived in the middle of North
America.
They hunted buffalo.
Their clothes were made from buffalo hides.
Plains Indians lived in teepees.
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The End