1. Native Americans
Chapter 1

2. Native American Territories

3. Native American Homes - Pueblo
The Pueblo lived in the Southwest region of North
America. Their homes were called pueblos which
were made of adobe (clay and straw baked into
bricks).

4. Native American Homes –
Algonquian and Great Lake Tribes
The Algonquian and Great Lake Tribes lived in the Northeast
Woodland region of North America. Their homes were called
wigwams which were made of bark.

5. Native American Homes
Navajo
The Navajo lived in the Southwest region of North
America. Their homes were called hogans which
were made of logs, sticks, and mud.

6. Native American Homes
Iroquois
The Iroquois lived in the Northeast Woodland
region of North America. Their homes were
called longhouses which were made of sticks
and sheets of bark.

7. Native American Homes
Northwest Coastal Tribes
The Northwest
Coastal Tribes lived in
the Northwest
Coastal region of
North America. Their
homes were called
plank houses which
were made of cedar
planks.

8. Native American Homes
Cherokee
The Cherokee lived
in the Woodland
region of North
America. Their
homew were called
log houses which
were made of clap
board.

9. Native American Homes
Inuit (Eskimo) – Winter Hunting Home
The Inuit lived in the Inuit (Canadian Arctic) region of
North America. Their homes were called igloos which
were made of blocks of ice and snow.

10. Native American Homes
Seminole
The Seminole lived in the Southeast Woodland region of
North America. Their homes were called chickees which
were made of palmetto thatch over a cypress log frame.

11. Native American Homes
Plains
The Plains Tribes
lived in the Plains
region of North
America. Their
homes were called
teepees which
were made of stick
frames and
buffalo hide.

12. What Did Native Americans Eat?
• Plains tribes hunted buffalo and other game such as elk and antelope.
•Inuit tribes hunted sea mammals such as walrus and seal.
•California tribes ground acorns into flour. They also ate rats, snakes,
grasshoppers, lizards, grubs, and roots.
• Northwest Coastal tribes could catch enough fish during the summer
salmon run to feed them for the whole winter.
•Seminole tribes gardened and gathered food. Blowguns were used to
hunt. All parts of the palmetto palm tree were used for food.
•Algonquin and the Great Lake tribes were mainly hunters. They tapped maple
trees for sap to make sugar. They also ate lobsters, oysters, mussels, clams, and
other shellfish.

13. Famous Native Americans
Sequoyah – Cherokee Tribe:
Invented a system to write the spoken Cherokee language.
Pocahontas – Powhatan:
A Virginia Native American known for her association with the
colonial settlement at Jamestown.
Sitting Bull – Sioux Tribe:
Led his people as a tribal chief during the years of resistance to the
United States government and their policies.
Osceola – Creek/Seminole Tribe:
A Medicine man and War Chief of the Seminoles during the Indian
Removal from Florida to the U.S. Territory of Oklahoma during the
early 1800’s.

14. Artifacts
The Navajo made paintings from SAND to help cure the
sick.
The Algonquians made DREAM CATCHERS to help their
children have good dreams.
The Eastern Woodland tribes made RATTLES from
TURTLE SHELLS and filled them with herbs for curing the
sick.
The Northwest Coastal Indians built tall TOTEM POLES
and placed them in front of their homes.

15. Artifacts
The Pueblo Indians made dolls of their gods called KACHINAS and
gave them to the children to play with so they would not be afraid of
the gods during ceremonies.
The Inuit made carvings from WHALE BONES.
The Plains Indians made just about everything from BUFFALO HIDE .
The Plains Indians were the only group to wear WAR BONNETS.
The chief wore this when he went into battle.
The Northwest Indians made containers from BIRCHBARK.

16. Native American Clothing
Patchwork clothing
Seminole
Buffalo Coat
Plains
Woman dressing
unmarried girl.
Hopi
Floral Designs on Skin
Cape
Cree (Canadian
Woodlands)
Woven Blanket Dress & Turquoise
Jewelry
Navajo
Ice Fishing
Inuit
Blanket
Chilkat
(Northwest
Coastal
Tribe)

17. Regions
Area from the Mississippi River to the
Rocky Mountains and from Canada to
Mexico:
GREAT PLAINS
Area that is now Alaska along the
Pacific Ocean down the coast to
Northern California:
NORTHWEST COAST
Covers the area which is now Utah and
Colorado through Arizona and New
Mexico into parts of Texas and
California:
SOUTHWEST
The area from Canada in the north to
the Gulf of Mexico in the south and
from the Atlantic Ocean in the east
to the Mississippi in the west:
SOUTHEAST

18. Native American Games
• Read about THE BOWL GAME
• Research a game from your tribe.
• Use the next page in your SSNB to describe
the game.
• Follow the prompts in order to tell us
everything you can about your tribe’s game.