The Natives

Essential Questions

What kind of terrain did each group live in?
How did different Native American groups adapt to their
environment?

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The Hohokam
They lived in the desert of present-day Arizona.
They adapted by: squeezed every drop of available water from
the sun-baked soil.
They also traded with coastal people.
Their way of life depended on irrigation channels.
They lived in an area bordered by the Gila and Salt River
valleys.
They left pottery, carved stone and shells etched with acid.
(They got shells from trade with coastal people.)


The Anasazi
Lived around the same time as the Hohokam. (200-1300 AD)
They lived in the Four Corners. (present-day Utah, New Mexico,
Colorado, Arizona)
Pueblo Bonitoone of the most spectacular pueblos. (village)
They also built dwellings in the walls of steep cliffs. Cliff
dwellings were easy to defend and offered protection from
winter weather. (Mesa Verde)
They used to drain all the water out the ground drop by drop.
The reason the Anasazi ended, was because they left to form
smaller communities.


The Mound Builders
---They built mounds of earth that look like the stone pyramids of the Maya and the
Aztec.
----Adena (hunters and gatherers) and the Hopewell people (farmers and traders).
----They were legendary.
----The Mound Builders were among the Cahokia.
----The Mound Builders lived in todays Pennsylvania through Mississippi.
---- They were not a single group but a group of many different people
---- They were were hunters and gatherers they would get there things from farmers
and traders.
---In the mounds, archaeologists found pearls, shells, etc which proved that they
traded with other groups.




Cahokia
Largest settlement of Mound Builders
Peoples of the North
Northernmost settlers were the Inuit.
They survived in the Arcticthey had to deal with harsh
climates.
Peoples of the Southwest
Made their homes from adobesun-dried mud brick.
In the 1500s, two new groups settled in the regionthe
Apache and the Navajo.