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Early American Civilization

• Native peoples

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To Begin
Allow 4 pages for Table of Contents. Label Table
of Contents Title Notebook US History Number
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Social Studies Interactive Notebook

• In this class, we will be using an Interactive
  Notebook. The interactive notebook is more than a
  notebook in which to take notes. It is a way of
  collecting and processing information. It will be
  your notebook for history class.
•  The Interactive Notebook uses a right side and
  left side to help you organize your learning. The
  right page includes traditional class
  assignments notes, worksheets, etc. The left
  side is a place for you to process that
  information.

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Purpose information from todays activity (learning) Examples textbook or lecture notes, vocabulary, lab procedure data, worksheet, concept map Purpose reflect or apply todays activity Examples content or lab questions, quick-write, 3-2-1 summary, diagram, graph Purpose focus on todays activity Examples pre-test, quick-write, demonstration, T-chart
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Implementation

• Notebooks can be kept in your binder. Bring it to
  class every day. It will not be in your best
  interest to lose it.
• Number the pages sequentially. Do not remove any
  pages. Both right and left pages should be
  numbered. It is important that all of us have the
  same information on the same page.
• The first pages are reserved for a table of
  contents, and instructions. Other information
  will be included as appendices.
• Use color to help organize your information.
• Handouts, foldables and other papers should be
  glued or taped in place. No staples.
• You will need other supplies markers, glue
  stick, tape, ruler, pencils, colored pencils
• Notebooks will be graded each unit using self,
  peer and teacher checklists.

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Early American Civilization

• Native peoples

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Timeline of Paleo Indians
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Paleo-Indians

• Paleo Indian refers to the small bands of nomadic
  people who first populated North America. After
  crossing the large expanse of land that appeared
  between Alaska and Siberia during the last
  glacial period, they kept traveling until some of
  them had reached as far as the southern tip of
  South America and as far east as Virginia.

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Clovis

• Clovis points such as this one
• were used to hunt mastodons and other large game
  during the Paleo Indian Period

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Clovis Culture

• Known for invention of superbly crafted grooved
  or fluted stone projectiles (Clovis points) first
  found near Clovis, New Mexico, in 1932. Clovis
  points have been found throughout the Americas.
• Hunted big game, notably mammoths.

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Folsom Culture

• Named for site found near Folsom, New Mexico,
  1926. Developed a smaller, thinner, fluted spear
  point than Clovis type.
• Hunted big game, notably the huge bison ancestor
  of the modern buffalo. First used a
  spear-throwing device called an atlatl (an Aztec
  word for spear-thrower). Discovery of Folsom
  point in 1927 gave first proof of Glacial Man in
  America.

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Plano Culture

• They are associated primarily with the Great
  Plains area.
• Were bison hunters.
• Developed a delicately flaked spear point that
  lacked fluting.
• Adopted mass-hunting technique (jump-kill) to
  drive animal herds off a cliff.
• First to use grinding stones to grind seeds and
  meat.

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Mound Builders
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Timeline of Moundbuilders
5000 BC-1000 ADARCHAIC-WOODLAND 1st mounds
bury dead 1000-1200 ADEARLY MISSISSIPPIANPERIOD
Trading with SW 1200-1400 ADMIDDLE
MISSISSIPPIANPERIOD Manufacturing 1400-1500
ADLATE MISSISSIPPIANPERIOD War
instability 1500-1670 ADEARLY EUROPEAN
CONTACT DeSoto saw declining culture
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Adena Indians

• Primarily hunter-gatherers
• they farmed corn, tobacco, squash, pumpkins, and
  sunflowers at an early date.

Adena Pipe Ohio, USA
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Hopewell Indians

• Were both hunter-gatherers and farmers.
• Villages were built along rivers, characterized
  by large conical or dome-shaped burial mounds and
  elaborate earthen walls enclosing large oval or
  rectangular areas.

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Mississippi CultureMajor tribes of the Southeast
are their modern descendants

• Constructed large flat-topped earthen mounds on
  which were built wooden temples and meeting
  houses and residences of chiefs and priests.

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Temple Mound BuildersMississippian Indians

• Were highly skilled hunters with bow and arrow.
• Practiced large-scale farming of corn, beans, and
  squash. Were skilled craftsmen.
• Falcon and Jaguar were common symbols in their
  art. Had clear ties with Mexico.

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Southwest American Indians

• Arizona is home to a diverse group of Native
  American inhabitants called the Pueblo People.

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Timeline of Southwest Indians
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Pueblo Indians

• Traditionally subsisted on agriculture. When
  first encountered by the Spanish in the 1500s,
  they were living in villages that the Spanish
  called Pueblos meaning "town". Of the
  approximately 25 pueblos that exist today, Taos,
  Acoma, Zuni, and Hopi the most well known.

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Mogollan Culture

• Were highland farmers but also hunters in what is
  now eastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.
• Were accomplished stoneworkers. Famous for
  magnificent black on white painted pottery
  (Minbres Valley pottery),

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Hohokam Culture

• a Pima Indian word meaning The Vanished Ones).
• Believed to be ancestors of the modern Papago
  (Tohono O'odham) and Pima (Akimel O'odham) Indian
  groups.

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Hohokam

• Settled in present-day Arizona.
• Were desert farmers. Cultivated corn.
• Were first to grow cotton in the Southwest
  weave cotton fabrics

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Hohokam

• Constructed vast network of irrigation systems.
• Important sites Pueblo Grande, Ariz. Snaketown,
  Ariz Casa Grande, Ariz.

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Anasazi Culture

• Inhabited Colorado Plateau four corners, where
  Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado meet.
• Their descendants are the Hopi and other Pueblo
  Indians.

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Navajo for The Ancient Ones

• Agricultural society that cultivated cotton, wove
  cotton fabrics.
• Early Anasazi are known as the Basketmaker People
  for their extraordinary basketwork.
• Were skilled workers in stone carved stone
  Kachina dolls.
• Built pit houses, later apartment-like pueblos.
• Constructed road networks.
• Were avid astronomers. Used a solar calendar.
  Traded with Mesoamerican Toltecs.
• The Acoma Pueblo, N.M., built circa 1300 and
  still occupied, may be the oldest continuously
  inhabited village in the U.S.

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Anasazi

• Important sites Chaco Canyon, N.M. Mesa Verde,
  Colo. Canyon de Chelly, Ariz. Bandelier, N.M.
  Betatkin, N.M. The Acoma Pueblo, N.M., built
  circa 1300 and still occupied, may be the oldest
  continuously inhabited village in the U.S.