AGRICUITURE

CIVILIZATION

MIGRATION

GLACIER

THE MOUND BUILDERS

• The Adena,Hopewell,and Mississipians were the first people to make big cities.
• They built big mounds out of the ground.Two of the groups buried jewelry,pottery, and their tools in the mounds.
• The town of Cahokia ,Illinois, is a famous Mississipian site that has more than 85 mounds.

THE PUEBLO PEOPLE

• The ancient pueblo people sometimes lived in villages that were dug into the side of canyons
• They built underground rooms called kivas.
• They built houses made of mud and stone.

POTLATCH

CLAN

SURPLUS

TLINGIT

• The Tlingit were one of the biggest American Indian groups in the Pacific Northwest.
• They put dividers in their houses for different families in their clan.
• They made clothes from bark to make boats and totem poles.

THE HOPI

• In the southwest, the Hopi are one of the oldest Indian groups.
• They grew squash,beans,and corn.
• Corn was a part of every meal ,it was the staple for the Hopi.
• The Hopi made clay pots and fired they're pots over coal to cook.
• The Hopi had ceremonies to pray for lots of rainfall for crops.

IRRIGATION

STAPLE

CEREMONY

LODGE

NOMAD

TRAVOIS

COMANCHE

• The Comanche were skilled horse riders.
• In the 1600s they started to raise horses.
• The Comanche spread across big parts of the land.

LONGHOUSE

CONFEDERATION

HAUDENOSAUNEE

• This group made longhouse and their name even means " people of the longhouse " .
• The HAUDENOSAUNEE bartered for goods and traded their things.
• Clan mothers could choose who would be a chief .

THE AZTEC

• 500 years ago, this civilization ruled over Mexico .
• Tenochtitlan was the capital.
• This city had a population of 250,000.