Posted by 0Kendra on September 16, 2011 at 12:17pm
There is a quiz on Monday over our individual sections. It is oral and informal.Notes:-unknown how long ago Americans arrived ~22,000 years ago. possibly over a land bridge where the Bering strait is today-originally NA's were big game hunters but as the ice melted most big game went extinct and the started hunting smaller game and fish and gathering nuts and berries.-between 10,000 and 5,000 years ago, a quiet agriculture revolution grew in central america and eventually spread into north and south america changing lives forever -NA's used to be nomadic (moving to find food and water) -Now tribes were able to stay in one place while growing crops to surivive on. some tribes stayed nomadice while some were a mix of the two-Eventually, each tribe had it's own type of culture, depending on where in the americas they lived-NA tribes/societies in the US include the Hohokam, Anasazi, Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian, Pueblo, Iroquois.-Culture:- in common certain patterns of trade, attitudes toward land use, religious beliefs, and social values.- Trade:-both locally and over long distances-did NOT trade land. "We cannot sell the lives of men and animals," said one Blackfoot cheif, "therefore we cannot sell this land.-Religious beliefs-believed world was filled with spirit and that everything had a voice within it-organization was by families which included the following: aunts, uncles, cousins, etc
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