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Title: Indian Life at the time of European Contact


1
Chapter 2
  • Section 2
  • Indian Life at the time of European Contact

2
What to look for
  • The tribes that lived in early North Carolina
  • How people of the Woodland culture lived
  • How contact with Europeans affected Native
    American life

3
Vocabulary Terms
  • Dialect
  • Clan
  • Matrilineal
  • Consensus
  • Conjurer
  • Immunity

4
Section Objectives
  • This section will help you meet the
  • following objectives
  • 8.1.02 Identify American Indians
  • who inhabited Carolina and assess
  • their impact on the colony.
  • 8.1.04 Evaluate the impact of the
  • Columbian Exchange on the existing
  • cultures.

5
Algonquin Tribes
  • Lived in small groups along the coast from what
    today is Maine and North Carolina
  • Groups included the Chowanoc and Pasquotank
    Indians that lived north of the Albemarle and the
    Waccamaw that lived on the Cape Fear
  • Relied heavily on fish

6
Algonquin Tribes
  • Fruits, melons, Walnuts, cucumbers, gourdes, peas
    and roots of many different plants were all part
    of the diet
  • John Whites paintings feature the Algonquin
    Tribes

7
The Tuscarora
  • Coastal Plain was dominated by this tribe with
    about 15 villages of 300 to 500 people
  • What would be the number of Tuscaroran people
    that lived in the Coastal Plain region?
  • 15x300 to 15x400
  • 4,500 to 7,500
  • Tuscarora means hemp gatherers hemp was used to
    make rope and binding cord

8
The Tuscarora
  • Came from the Iroquois nation of New York
  • Were said to be in great shape and have great
    posture

9
The Catawba
  • Lived in the rolling hills of the Piedmont
  • Largest group was the Catawba and were
    distinguished by the burnt black pottery they
    made out of the various clays in the area
  • Sapona Tribe lived on the Yadkin river
  • Occaneechi lived near what is now Hillsborough
    and were known to be miners

10
Catawba Village
11
The Cherokee
  • the Cherokee are infamous in North Carolina both
    for their size and their location and were
    distinguished by the hand made baskets
  • Were driven from their original habitat along the
    upper Ohio River and were always at odds with the
    Iroquois
  • Settled in the deep mountains during the Woodland
    period
  • Once controlled a mountain region of 40,000
    square miles

12
The Cherokee
  • one of the largest tribes in what became the
    United States having 3 distinct villages
  • The upper Cherokee were those that lived in the
    Tennessee River Valley The lower Cherokee were
    those that lived in the upper reaches of the
    Savannah River in South Carolina and Georgia the
    middle Cherokee were those located along the
    Little Tennessee River

13
The Cherokee
  • Disputes had to be solved at their ceremonial
    center it was sometime difficult due to the fact
    that each group spoke a different
    dialect-pronouncing words differently

14
Native American Habitats and Beliefs
  • All tribes hunted deer for its meat and its skin
  • Needed grapes, berries, walnuts, chestnuts and
    black walnuts for survival
  • Would also find holes in trees made by squirrels
    and gather what the squirrels had put away and if
    they caught the squirrel
    ..
  • THEY ATE IT AS WELL!!!!!!!

15
The Cherokee
  • 3 sisters refers to the planting of corn, beans,
    and squash
  • Vegetables were important in the winter when the
    game was scarce
  • Algonquin groups mixed corn, meat and beans for a
    dish they called succotash
  • What does that remind you of today???

Brunswick Stew
16
Village life
  • Coastal tribes built bark longhouses
  • Spaces in the huts were filled with wet clay
    which meant that they could be easily repaired if
    they were damaged
  • 2 houses were usually the norm why do you think
    that is?
  • They had a house for the cold winter months and a
    house for the hot summer months

17
Village life
18
Village Life
  • Each village had rules to go by but that also
    meant competition
  • All children belonged to the clan- an extended
    family of people with a common ancestor
  • Governing was done by consensus meaning that all
    problems were talked about until everyone agreed
    on the same action

19
Belief Systems
  • Native Americans respected nature as much as they
    respected their elders survival depended on
    their interaction with the environment
  • They believed that the spirit could be found in
    all things

20
Columbian Exchange
  • What is it?
  • The exchange of plants, food, animals, people,
    diseases, and ideas between the Americans, the
    Indians and the Europeans

21
Hemp gatherers Maine to NC tribes of many
languages Algonquin where the river divides Sioux
Language Piedmont the people upper middle lower
Chowanoc Pasquotank 15 villages Sapona Occaneechi
different dialect of Cherokee Coastal Plain
mountains
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