Early American Tribes

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Early American Tribes

• Navajo
• Yurok
• Cherokee
• Haudenasaunee

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Navajo

• Live in the SW (Arizona)
• Learned how to adapt to the desert by hunting and
  farming
• Weaving and sand painting were among their skills
• Respect for nature
• Built their homes facing East to show respect to
  the sunrise.

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Yurok

• Live in the NW (California) Redwood Forest
• Special strings of shells were used for money
• Bartered for animal skins, food, elk horns, and
  canoes
• Lived near rivers and fished for salmon, which is
  still important today
• Changed their environment
• by building dams

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Cherokee

• Lived in the SE (Georgia) in the Appalachian
  Mtns.
• They lived hunted, fished, and farmed near rivers
  and streams
• Had summer and winter houses
• Sequoyah invented the Cherokee alphabet
• The rich soil (piedmont) was good for farming
• They traveled west on the Trail of Tears

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Haudenosaunee

• Lived in the NE (New York) in the forests where
  they hunted and grew crops
• Haudenosaunee means people of the longhouse
• Six to ten families that lived in the longhouses
  were called a clan
• Peacemaker helped form a government that made
  laws
• Five Nations were formed by the government to
  keep order and peace
• The 5 Nations on the wampum belt were Seneca,
  Oneida, Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga