PRESENTATION OF INDIANS BY:KALEB AND JACOB

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PRESENTATION OF INDIANS

BYKALEB AND JACOB
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Aztec Indians

• The Aztecs came into Anahuac,the valley of
  Mexico,in A.D. 1168.The date 1168 does not tell
  us that the Aztecs actually started their
  settlement there.Dr.Vaillant believed,that at
  this time the Aztecs,who were then cultural
  nonentities,had began to use a calender which had
  been in use for thousands of years.At least in so
  thickly settled an area as the valley of Anahuac
  they were so insignificant that there arrival at
  the lakes passed completely unnoticed.There is no
  record of their arrival in the forest of
  Chapultepecin the generation about A.D.1250.

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Mississippi Mound Builders

• Although the first people entered what is now the
  Mississippi about 12,000 years ago, the earliest
  major phase of earthen mound construction in this
  area did not begin until some 2100 years ago.
  Mounds continued to be built sporadically for
  another 1800 years, or until around 1700 A.D.
  Archeologists, the scientist who study the
  evidence of past human lifeways, classify
  moundbuilding Indians of the Southeast into three
  major chronological/cultural divisions the
  Archaic, the Woodland, and the Mississippian
  traditions.

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CHICKASAW INDIANS
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It is suspected that in earlier history the
Chickasaw and Choctaw may have been a single
tribe. The Chickasaw were a semi-nomadic tribe
that closely patrolled their claimed territory
and raided territory to the north. While doing
so, they absorbed the remnants of the tribes that
they conquered. By doing this, they became a
mixed-blood tribe. They became known as "breeds".


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Shawnee Indians
The Shawnee Indians were living in the Ohio
Valley as early as the late 1600s.  The Iroquois
Indians were unwilling to share these rich
hunting grounds and drove the Shawnees away. 
Some went to Illinois, others went to
Pennsylvania, Maryland or Georgia. As the power
of the Iroquois weakened, the Shawnee Indians
moved back into Ohio from the south and the
east.  They settled in the lower Scioto River
valley
 
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Olmec Indians

• The Olmec were the first one of the first
  civilizations in the Americas and were the mother
  culture of many Central American Native cultures.
  The Olmec called themselves Xi (pronounced shee).
  The Olmec thrived in the forests, rivers and
  savannas of the Gulf of Mexico from 1200 to 400
  BC. Their territory began at the Valley of Mexico
  and reached to Guatemala. No one is certain where
  the Olmec came from or how they go to South
  America, but they most likely descended from the
  hunter gathers that first entered the Americas

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CREEK INDIAN

• The Creek Indians (or Muskogee) belong to the
  Muskhogean linguistic stock. The historical
  Creek, a union known as the Creek Confederacy was
  made out of the remains of the several separate
  tribes that occupied Georgia and Alabama in the
  American Colonial Period. It is believed that the
  Creek culture began as a way to guard against
  other larger conquering Indian tribes of the
  region. The Confederacy was in constant flux, its
  numbers and land possessions ever-changing as
  small bands joined and withdrew from the alliance

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Mayans Indians
The Mayans are regarded as the inventors of many
aspects of Meso-American cultures including the
first calendar and hieroglyphic writing in the
Western hemisphere. Archeologists have not
settled the relationship between the Olmecs and
the Mayans, and it is a mystery whether the
Mayans were their descendants, trading partners,
or had another relationship. It is agreed that
the Mayans developed a complex calendar and the
most elaborate form of hieroglyphics in America,
both based on the Olmec's versions.
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Cherokee Indians

• At the time of European contact, the Cherokees
  numbered about twenty-two thousand and controlled
  more than forty thousand square miles of land.
  Their homeland consisted of parts of eight
  present states the Carolinas, the Virginias,
  Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. The
  original holdings were gradually eliminated by
  more than three dozen land cessions with the
  British and the United States between 1721 and
  1835. By 1819, Cherokee territory included only
  the adjacent mountainous areas of North Carolina,
  Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. In December
  1835, the Treaty of New Echota ceded the last
  remaining territory east of the Mississippi. In
  exchange the Cherokees received equivalent
  holdings in what is now northeastern Oklahoma.