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The First Americans: 8 Grade Humanities 2011 Green/Pang

Migrants from Siberia crossed a land bridge into North America around 30,000 years ago during the Ice Age. As the earth warmed 10,000 years ago, the land bridge disappeared and the migrants' descendants developed into various hunter-gatherer tribes. By 1400, over 1 million American Indians lived in North America organized into 10 major cultural regions based on shared languages and ways of life. Tribes adapted their shelters, tools, and food sources to suit their local environments.

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The First Americans: 8 Grade Humanities 2011 Green/Pang

Migrants from Siberia crossed a land bridge into North America around 30,000 years ago during the Ice Age. As the earth warmed 10,000 years ago, the land bridge disappeared and the migrants' descendants developed into various hunter-gatherer tribes. By 1400, over 1 million American Indians lived in North America organized into 10 major cultural regions based on shared languages and ways of life. Tribes adapted their shelters, tools, and food sources to suit their local environments.

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THE FIRST AMERICANS

8th Grade Humanities 2011 Green/Pang

Migration of First Americans

Across a Land Bridge


Ice Age 30,000 yrs. ago Land Bridge called Beringia Siberian Hunters, stone spears Moved East from Asia North America Spread further to South America Earth Warmed 10,000 yrs. ago Land bridge disappears; animals die; climate changes Descendants of Siberian Hunters became Hunter-Gatherers (catching small animals, fishing, collecting plants, seeds)

Hunter-Gatherers

American Indian Cultural Regions

Cultural Region area made up of people who share a similar language and way of life By 1400s, 1 and 2 million American Indians lived in North America in ten different cultural regions

Cultural Regions Different Tribes


Cultural Regions A Few Major Tribes

Northwest Coast

Coos, Chinook

California
Plateau Great Basin

Pomo, Chumash
Nez Perce Shoshone

Southwest Hopi, Apache Great Plains Cheyenne, Crow, Blackfoot

Adapting to the Environment


American Indians survived by adapting or changing their style of living to suit each environment, its climate, and its natural resources.

Shelter: Tipis of the Great Plains

Food: Buffalo Hunting in the Great Plains

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