Native Americans:
Artic:
-built igloos they lived in
-killed polar bears and seals
subartic:
-nomadic
-used snow shoes
-followed tribes of caribou
Northeast:
-built canoes because they lived by water
Southeast Indians:
-expert farmers because they had a lot of land
-they would hunt for buffalo on the plains
Southwest:
-apachi tribes are well known
-nomadic
-some groups settled in more
-build pueblos out of rock and mud
Great Basin:
-between rockies and sierra mountains
-traveled around there a lot
-set up temporary settlements there
California:
-most inhabited area of indians because of weather
-most diverse with different languages and tribes
Northwest Coast:
-they fished and hunted and gatbered
-had a pot latch which was a gift giving celelbration
-made totem poles to show kin ship
Plateua:
-fished and hunted and gathered
-lewis and clark went through there and brought diseases so they died
BUI:
Potlatch gift giving festival practiced by the indigenous peoples of the pacific northwest coast
Odoodem: dereived to the word totem. they were used by the indigenous peoples of the pacific northwest
Pueblo: apartment like structures built of stone, adobe mud, and other local materials used as communities for native americans in the southwestern US
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