Early North America: The lives of Native Americans before the age of exploratio
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- Geography of the early North American Native Americans.
- The Early North American Native Americans lived in various geographical regions in the area including:the sub-arctic(dark blue),arctic(yellow),northwest coast(red),plateau(dark yellow/golden yellow),plains(dark green),great basin(purple under the plateau region and east of california),california(purple),southwest(blue),southeast(light purple) and northeast (orange) regions in North America.
- Pacific Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean
- The Native American's religion and spiritual beliefs played an important role in their everyday life.Each tribe had its own unique beliefs,legends, and ritual, but they all the world was filled with spirits and worshipped them.The native american tribes/nations recognized some main/great spirit that created the world like the Sioux,Algonquian,and Blackfoot people.Some tribes in the southeastern united states believed in the three worlds.The three worlds included the upper world which was perfect,the lower world which was chaotic and scary, and the middle world where man lived and the spirits in those two other worlds were able to travel both in there own realms and in earth and man was responsible for maintaining a balance between all three worlds.
- Northweststern tribes
- Religion
- Most native american groups has a consensus-based form of organization where leaders had to rise up to their positions rather than having them fixed for them.Chieftains were elected or chosen by the people to help guide them and give them advice.Civil leaders guided the tribes during times of peace while war leaders guided the tribes during times of war.The native american nations/unified groups typically were a combination of different tribes as with the Algonquian,Apache,Iroquois and the Sioux Nation.
- Great Plains Tribes
- Politics
- Tribes like the Navajo and the Cherokee grew large crops ad employed advance farming procedures such as irrigation to bring water to dry areas and crop rotation to keep the ground fertile over many years and allowing them to grow extra crops and good which they could store and use it to survive the winter. Native Americans in the southwest especially the Hopi tribe built pueblos, homes built using bricks and adobe clay and acted as permanent shelters for them.To keep the walls of their homes strong, every year a new layer of clay would be place on the walls.A pueblo home was made up of a number of clay rooms built on top of each other.Sometimes pueblos were built as tall as 4 or 5 stories high.Each room got smaller the higher the pueblo was built.They used ladders to climb between the doors and would remove them at night to prevent people from coming into their house.
- Achievements.
- Southwester Tribes
- The Native Americans didn't have much in terms of any economic system.They did trade with each other when at peace(both by land and by river) and hunted and scavenged for food and materials to help feed themselves and build housing and other things like baskets and other such objects as well to create art.But still,people didn't own any land or collect money in a bank.They mainly valued inter tangible things like respect,honor,and status.They didn't value material items that much and so didn't put much value to them.They had no money type currency and instead traded/bartered for other items rather than using currency to by them and generally had no economical value system and valued those mainly intangible things instead of material things or land.
- The leaders of the tribes and clans were known as and callede chiefs or chieftains.Chieftains did not have total power,but were respected members of the clan communities who's advice was followed by the clans and tribes.Under them were the civil leader and the war leader.The civil leader guided the tribes during times of peace while the war leaders took over during times of war. Clans were further divided into villages and families,many of the families often living together and the two groups playing a more important role in the daily lives of the people.The leaders and chiefs were mainly women, but they weren't entirely powerless as women's opinions were respected and were usually leaders inside their homes.
- Social Structure.
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