This document contains information about how early Native American cultures developed housing, clothing, and food sourcing based on their environments. It provides a table with details on the Kwakiutl Native American nation, including that they lived in the Northwest Coast near the Pacific Ocean where there is heavy rainfall and dense forests. They obtained food like salmon, berries and plant life while wearing cloaks made of shredded cedar bark and lived in large rectangular cedar-plank houses. The document instructs students to locate where other Native American groups settled based on environment and to describe how they obtained resources for survival.

1. Name: _____________________________________________________
SS4H1 The student will describe how early Native American cultures developed in North
America.
a. Locate where Native Americans settled with emphasis on the Arctic (Inuit),
Northwest (Kwakiutl), Plateau (Nez Perce), Southwest (Hopi), Plains (Pawnee),
and Southeast (Seminole).
b. Describe how Native Americans used their environment to obtain food,
clothing, and shelter.
Native Location/Environment Food Clothing Shelter
American
Nation
They lived in the There are salt Most men did They lived in
Northwest Coast near water and not wear any rectangular,
the Pacific Ocean. This freshwater fish, clothing at all, cedar-plank
environment has mild forest and but some wore houses with
The temperatures and heavy ocean animals. a breechcloth. bark roofs.
Kwakiutl rainfall. There are large, Plant life Women wore Their houses
dense forests and many includes ferns, short skirts were large
rivers. berries, and made of cedar enough to hold
skunk bark. In colder up to 50 people.
cabbages. They weather, both
specialized in wore long tunics
salmon and and cloaks
other types of made of
fishing. shredded cedar
bark with
moccasins.

2. Native Location/Environment Food Clothing Shelter
American
Nation
Inuit
Nez Perce

3. Native Location/Environment Food Clothing Shelter
American
Nation
Hopi
Pawnee

4. Native Location/Environment Food Clothing Shelter
American
Nation
Seminole
Resources:
Visit each table of books. Books are group by Native American Nation.
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