Wednesday

 U.S. History Period 1: 1491-1607

Topic 1 – Contextualization

Topic 2 – Native American Societies Before European Contact

Question: Explain how and why various native population in the period before European contact interacted with the natural environment in North America.

Before the arrival of Europeans, native populations in North America developed a wide variety of social, political, and economic structures based in part on interactions with the environment and each other

 

Historical Developments:

1)    The spread of maize from Mexico northward into present day American SW and beyond supported economic development, settlement, advance irrigation, and social diversification among societies.

2)    Societies responded to the aridity of the Great Basin and grasslands of the western Great Plains by developing mobile lifestyles.

3)     In the Northeast, the Mississippi River Valley, and along the Atlantic seaboard, some societies mixed agricultural and hunter-gather economies that favored the development of permanent villages.

4)    Societies in the Northwest and present-day California supported themselves by hunting and gathering, and in some areas developed settled communities supported by vast resources of the Ocean.

 

Assignment for FRIDAY:

 

Make a list of notes about your region - groups of people (names of First Nations), include how the lived (hunting, farming, trading, etc), what they grew or ate, what type of structures they lived in (long houses, etc), roles for men/women, religion, beliefs about the world, find one oral story from the region. This should be a slide show and should contain at least ten slides. There should be a map showing your region.

Also fill out the map that I give you about where your group lives.

Northwest:

West (California):

Southwest:

Northeast:

Southeast:

Plains:

 Here are some videos that will help you: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWWndCnip3V0ZQ4RumSJ4fNkrl-w5i4Qg&si=UXvW2i6Dxq_CDqlb