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Each region had different natural resources.

Each culture group used the natural resources

in its region to meet its needs.
Native Americans used natural resources
to meet their needs.

trees water stones buffalo

Natural resources are things in nature that

people can use.
 Great Plaines Tribes
– Arapaho Indians •Kainah Indians
– Arikara Indians •Mandan Indians
– Assiniboine Indians •Oglala Indians
– •Osage Indians
Atsina Indians
•Oto Indians
– Brule Indians
•Piegan Indians
– Cheyenne Indians •Ponca Indians
– Chipewyan Indians •Quapaw Indians
– Cree Indians •Sarsi Indians
– Crow Indians •Siksika Indians
– Dakota Indians •Teton Indians
– Hidatsa Indians •Wichita Indians
•Yanktonai Indians
 Great Plains Indians Homes

Buffalo were a natural resource in the Plains

region. The meat was used for food.
The skins were used for shelters and clothing. The
bones were used for tools.
 Great Plains Indians Homes
• Tepees: tent-like American Indian
houses
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• Grass Houses:beehive shape and

thatched with long prairie grass
(Caddos)
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 Southeast Tribes
• Cherokees
• Natchez
• Chickasaw
• Creeks
 South East Indians
• Lived about 4000 years
ago.
• Each tribe had their
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their own gods and

goddesses to guide
them through life.
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• Wattle & Daub Houses: made by weaving rivercane, wood,

and vines into a frame, then coating the frame with plaste
(Cherokee)
• Chickees: Huts, stilt housesick posts supporting a thatched
roof and a flat wooden platform raised several feet off the
ground. They did not have any walls (Florida )
• Earth Homes: in the ground
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 South East Indians
• Produced colorful art
using their dyes.
• Made their own baskets
from natural materials.
• Used shells to make QuickTime™ and a
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knives.
• Most known for their
beautiful beadwork.
 Northeast Indians Tribes
The group of Native American known as the
Woodland Indians is made up of several
tribes. These are some of the major tribes.

Delaware Wampanoag Huron

Narraganset Powhatan Iroquois
Mohawk Oneida Onondaga
Cayuga Seneca Tuscarora
Dyed quills decorated
moccasins in red, blue
and violet. These are
Seneca quilled
moccasins
This is a picture
of the traditional
dress of men in
many of the
Eastern
Woodland tribes.
 Food

Corn, beans, and squash were

the most important crops
planted. They were know as
“The Three Sisters” as they
were also grown together.
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• Wigwams-woven mats and sheets of

birchbark (Algonquian)
• Longhouse: Longhouses could be 150
feet long, 20 feet wide, and 20 feet high
(Iroquois)

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 Iroquois Confederacy
• Political alliance formed by five language
related tribes in the Northeastern Woodlands
• Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga,
Seneca
• Alliance formed to ensure protection of tribal
lands
• U.S. uses similar ideas when creating its own
government
 Southwest
• Hohokam, Anasazi, Hopi, Navaho
• Harsher environment - dry desert
• Farmers - used irrigation to grow corn,
beans, and squash - The Three Sisters
• Excellent builders - pueblos and cliff
dwellings
 Southwest Indians
• Adobe Houses:multi-story houses made
of adobe (clay and straw baked into
hard bricks

• Hopi, Pueblo, Adobe

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 Cliff Palace

Mesa Verde
 Kiva

Underground ceremonial chambers

The Pacific Northwest
 Pacific Northwest
• Kwakiutl, Nootka, Haida
• Abundant environment - sea and forest
• Whale hunters
• Wealth leads to social classes
• Potlatch - giving away ceremony to
show wealth
The Northwest Coast region had many forests. The
Native Americans in this
region used wood from the forests
to carve tall totem poles.

The carvings on each totem pole told about a

family’s history.
Indians from the Northwest Coast hunted sea
animals in the Pacific Ocean.

There were many salmon in the

rivers for them to eat.
They also hunted animals in nearby forests.
 North West Indians
• Plank Houses: Flat planks of cedar
wood

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Inuits
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 Winter
Seal
Hunting
Inuit Fur Clothing

Travel
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 Inuit Diet

Primary Foods: Seal

Caribou
Whale
Walrus
Fish
Birds

All are high in protein and fat

 Artic Homes
• Igloos: Blocks made of ice

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 California
• Encompasses the western states.
• The Pomo, an Indian tribe, crafted beautiful
baskets of all different sizes and for all
different occasions.
• Lived in communities numbering up to 2,000
• More than 100 languages flourished in
California before European contact; most are
gone today.
 Great Basin
• From the Rockies to the Sierra Nevada mountain
ranges. Largely consisting of desert.
• Water & food was hard to come by, too dry for
farming- few animals to hunt. Gathered nuts and
seeds.
• Tribes had to stay on the move, most natives had a
routine route they traveled every year. Because they
were always moving their dwellings were mostly
temporary.
• California and Intermountain regions used shells as
currency.
 Plateau
• Eastern Oregon and Washington, southern Alberta
and British Columbia, northern Idaho and western
Montana.
• Hot summers and long cold winters.
• Pattern of life similar to Great Basin peoples but was
enhanced by annual runs of salmon up the Columbia
River.
• People lived in villages made of partly sunken circular
dwellings in the cold months and camped in grass
mat houses in the warm months
 Work Cited
• http://www.native-languages.org/houses
.htm
• http://www.davemcgary.com/images/da
ve-mcary-expressions-in-bronze/north-a
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