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Great Northwest Indians
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chinooks and Makahs
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The Southwest Indians
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Hopis and Navajos
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Great Plains Indians
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Mandans and Kiowas
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Eastern Woodland Indians
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Iroquios and Cherokees
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Middle America
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Mayas and Aztec
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Chinooks
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lived together in Clans
controlled the columbia river to the dalles Made others pay to use river |
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potlatches
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Special parties to show off wealth sometimes planned for years (Chinook)
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These indians lived in pit houses
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Chinooks
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The climate is too wet for agriculture short growing season so get most of food through trade lots of fish dear and bear
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The Great northwest
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Hunted whales at sea
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Makahs
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Makahs
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had totem poles outside house
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Hopi
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means peaceful one
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Climate arid and dry Used water from undergrougn springs or rain water
stored food for times of drought |
Southwest area
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These were pueblo indians
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The Hopi
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Learned from the pueblos but weren't pueblos
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navajo
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Navajo
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lived in a hogan (cone shaped house by covering log with mud or grass
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A religious leader and healer for the navajo indians
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Shaman (would call upon the gods to give people special favors)
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Lived in the forests along the missouri river in North Dakota Had buffalo hunt twice a year
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Mandans
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Mandans
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lived in lodges or circular houses
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Kiowas
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these indians were nomads that FOLLOWED THE BUFFALO
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Lived in tepees
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kiowas
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travois
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a carrier make of two poles with a skin over them attached to a dog
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thick forests - rugged snow covered mountains in north, hot wet swams in south
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Eastern woodlands
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Were very powerful and made up of many groups of tribes that spoke same language and lived near each other
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Iroquois
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Iroquois League
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formed by dekanawida and Hiawatha to work for peace.
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confederation
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the group government formed when each tribe governed themselves but had a council to make decisions that affected the whole nation
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Cherokees
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had summer (large box shaped) and winter (small pit houses)
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lived in houses built close together in villages governed by a cheif
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Cherokee
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What game was called Little War
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Lacrosse (played by Cherokee)
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Ceremonies held in temple in each cherokee village
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Green corn Ceremony
healing ceremonies |
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The Mayas
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500 BC in the time of the Olmes. Had city states
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What is a city-state
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a city with its own ruler and government
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With the mayans what were the social classes
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priests
nobles traders farmers slaves |
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Mayan Slaves
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They had to carry out order
Were slaves because of a crime they committed |
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Invented the calendar
picture writing counting using zero |
Mayas
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Aztecs
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began as nomads until AC 1200
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capital of the aztec
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Tenochtitlan built in th emiddle of tlake texcoco
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Had an emperor and a large army
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Aztecs
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