The document provides an overview of the different Native American groups in North America, describing their regions, lifestyles, dwellings, and distinguishing characteristics. It divides Native Americans into 5 main regional groups: Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Basin/Plateau, and West Coast. For each region, it outlines their geographic area, whether they had a nomadic or permanent lifestyle, the types of dwellings they lived in (such as teepees, adobe houses, or permanent wooden homes), and what they were known for culturally or historically (like ceremonial mounds, being skilled horsemen, or carving totem poles). It also provides brief descriptions of Native American religious beliefs and practices.

1. The New World

2. Chapter 1 vocabulary
• Nomadic
• Animism
• Sea dogs
• Huguenots
• Indentured servants
• House of Burgesses

3. How did the Indians come to be in America?
• Probably after the scattering of nations at the
Tower of Babel (Genesis 11)

4. Different Indian Nations
• 5 main regions:
– Woodlands
– Plains
– Southwest
– Great Basin and Plateau
– West Coast

5. The Woodlands
Wigwam

6. The Woodlands
Cahokia Mounds

7. US Indians
Area Lifestyle Lodging Known For

8. The Woodlands
Area Lifestyle Lodging Known for:
Woodlands Eastern US; Permanent Permanent Ceremonial
Includes villages; mounds
Arkansas wigwam

9. The Plains

10. The Plains
Area Lifestyle Lodging Known for:
Woodlands Eastern US; Permanent Permanent Ceremonial
Includes villages; mounds
Arkansas wigwam
Between
Nomadic Teepee Skilled
Plains Mississippi
horseman
River and
Rocky Mtns.

11. The Southwest

12. The Southwest

13. The Southwest
Area Lifestyle Lodging Known for:
Woodlands Eastern US; Permanent Permanent Ceremonial
Includes villages; mounds
Arkansas wigwam
Between
Nomadic Teepee Skilled
Plains Mississippi
horseman
River and
Rocky Mtns.
Southwest Arizona, New Permanent Adobe houses “cliff dwellers”
Mexico,
Colorado

14. Great Basin & Plateau

15. Great Basin & Plateau

16. Great Basin & Plateau

17. The Great Basin & Plateau
Area Lifestyle Lodging Known for:
Eastern US; Permanent Permanent Ceremonial
Includes villages; mounds
Arkansas wigwam
Woodlands Between
Nomadic Teepee Skilled
Plains Mississippi
horsemen
River and
Rocky Mtns.
Southwest Arizona, New Permanent Adobe houses “cliff dwellers”
Mexico,
Colorado
Great Basin Between Nomadic Hogans & petroglyphs
& Plateau Rocky Mtns. & Teepees
Sierra Mtns.

18. The West Coast
• Depicted local legends
and important events
• Some pictured local
gods
• Some marked gravesites
of important leaders

19. The West Coast
Area Lifestyle Lodging Known for:
Woodlands Eastern US; Permanent
Ceremonial
Includes villages;
Permanent mounds
Arkansas wigwam
Plains Between Skilled
Mississippi R. Nomadic Teepee horsemen
and Rocky
Mnts.
Arizona, New
Mexico,
Southwest Permanent Adobe houses “cliff dwellers”
Colorado
Great Basin Between
& Plateau Rocky Mtns. & Nomadic Hogans & petroglyphs
Sierra Mtns. Teepees
Along west Permanent
West Coast Permanent Totem poles
coast wooden
homes

20. Indians Religion
• Animism: belief that spirits live in objects in
nature
• Spirits ruled the events of nature
• Believed they were created from a group of
animals

21. Vocabulary Example:
Tallyn Hughes
111th History
8/16/11
1. Nomadic constantly on the move in search of game, fish and
wild plants.
2. Adobe a dried clay and straw mixture used to build
houses
3. Totem Poles carvings from large trees that depicted local
legends and important events