1. Michigan’s First People
Chapter 2

2. Early Native Americans
Paleo-Indians (old/early Indians)
Hunters from Asia-crossing a land bridge
11,000 years ago after the glaciers
Archaeologists

3. Early Native Americans
Hopewell Indians
came from what is now Indiana & Ohio
2,000 years ago
What is left today: Norton Mounds near Grand Rapids
Mound Builders: bury their dead
A burial mound at Norton Mounds, near Grand Rapids
Source:

4. The Anishinabeg Indians
Migrated from Atlantic Coast to Michigan about 1,000 years ago to what is now Sault Ste. Marie
Sault St. Marie
Beverly School

5. The Anishinabeg Indians
3 groups:
Ojibwa(or Chippewa) – “older brother”
Ottawa – “middle brother”
Potawatomi – “younger brother”
Known as the Three Fires Confederacy (family)
This is Chief Pontiac, the most famous Ottawa chief. Did you know that Pontiac, Michigan, and Pontiac cars are named after him? Hmmm … what’s in his hand?

6. Moodle Reflection
Look at a relief map from NASA, based on photos taken from space!
Relief maps show high and low areas of land
Blue areas = water
Green areas = low areas of land
Yellow areas = higher land areas
So … the more yellow the area, the higher up the land is (like mountains)
The greener the area, the lower it is.

7. Moodle Reflection
Compare the map on the next slide with the map in your book on page 51.
Explain where the Anishinabeg Indians came from and why they settled in different areas of Michigan.
Think about what they needed from their environment to survive.
How did geography affect their path?

8. Beverly School
Photo from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab:

9. The Huron Indians Huron: Named by French traders
Wendat: (people of the peninsula)
Lots of things in Michigan are named after the Hurons:
Huron Street in Ann Arbor
Huron River in Ann Arbor
One of our Great Lakes is Lake Huron
The Eastern Michigan University teams used to be called the Hurons
Dolls from the Huron Tribe
Image:

10. The Iroquois Indians Iroquois: New York
Iroquois beadwork. From
The Iroquois Indians
Iroquois: New York
Forced the Huron to southeastern Michigan
Bitter enemies with the Huron Indians
Spoke same language and were related
They fought over land in the Upper Peninsula
Arrived about 350 years ago

11. Vocabulary Words artifacts: objects made or used by people in the past
culture: similar art, beliefs, & customs of people
migrate: move from one place to another
Confederacy: a group united for a common purpose
wigwam: dome-shaped homes of bark and trees
bands: small groups of people
clans: groups of families with common ancestors
stockade: high fences
longhouses: large houses 25 x 200 feet long
kinship: family relationships

12. Group Work Big Question:
How did the first Michigan People adapt to their environment?
Think about:
Clothing, food, shelter, natural resources, climate, weather, & travel.
Do:
Create a Power Point Presentations about your Indian group.
Create a Wiki Page that you will link your project to.
(the project directions are on the next slides!)

13. Project Requirements Keep the big question in mind as you work.
You need to research your tribe online.
Read from the Michigan book to get information.
Take notes in your own words to include all the information about: clothes, food, natural resources, weather, climate, travel, & shelter.
Include vocabulary words from the list that are appropriate to your tribe.
You may include other interesting facts you find.
Work together as a team.

14. Power Point Requirements
Information: You must have information for each category on your organizer. (food, shelter, resources, climate/weather, clothes, interesting facts) The information must be accurate!
Sources: You must have a slide that lists all of the resources you used, like: website addresses, books, and articles)
Pictures/Illustrations/ Graphics: Each slide should have some type of graphic to illustrate the content of the slide. You must also give credit to the person or place that you got the illustration from.
Design: You will need a slide for each information area, sources, and a title page. Your presentation must be readable, and nice to look at.

15. Online Resources
Tribal Languages
Ojibwa
Ottawa
Ottawa
Potawatomi
Potawatomi
Huron
Iroquois
Clothing of Native Americans
clothes etc.
The Internet Public Library
Iroquois
Ojibwa
Climate
Iroquois

16. Free Online Clipart for Project
free clipart
free clipart

17. Compare & Contrast Tribes
Complete the compare and contrast chart while you listen to other groups present their information.
You will need to write small to fit details into the chart. If you miss details, you will find them on the wiki.
You will hand in your organizer as part of your final grade for this project.