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1 Early Native American Tribes
The first Americans Early Native American Tribes

2 Warm-up Oral History- traditions passed from generation to generation by word of mouth

3 New York State Native Americans
1) What area was the Lenape Tribe located in New York State? The Lenape were located along the Delaware River. 2) Explain how work was divided between the men and women of the Lenape? Lenape men were expert hunters and fishermen, while Lenape women farmed. 3) Describe “wampum”? What was it used for? The Lenape used a money system of their own invention called "wampum." . The Lenape used wampum in ceremonies, as diplomatic gifts, and for trading with the Europeans 4) What area was the Iroquois Tribe located in New York State? The Iroquois were located in Western and Central New York. 5) Look at the map, what were the five tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy? The Five Tribes were the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca. 6) Describe how fur trading affected the Lenape and the Iroquois way of life? The two tribes used the furs as clothing for themselves. They also used furs as a form of currency to trade with European settlers.

4 Native American tribes in the us
Location Tribes Food Source Culture Living Conditions The North Inuit Koyukon Aleut Ingalik Hunted, fished, gathered food Nomadic Cold bitter winters, warm springs The Northwest Coast Coos Salish Makah Waterways, fished Fishing and food storage technologies Heavy Rainfall California Chumash Yurok Fish, acorns, beans Many languages Lived in Small Bands Mountains and valleys Plateau Chinook Cayuse Fished Salmon Dug for Roots Built Villages that looked down from riverbanks Plateau of dry plains crisscrossed by rivers Great Basin Paiute Ute Shoshoni Roots, nuts, rabbits, insects Dry Land, food was scarce Southwest Hopi Anaszi Apache Navaho Farming Cliff Apartments VERY DRY Plains Mandans Pawnee Sioux Buffalo Corn Beans Squash Nomadic; followed Buffalo Temperate South East Creek Natchez Cherokee Corn Fished Hunted Medicine Earth Monuments Swampland to Forests


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