The physical environment greatly impacted Native American cultures and their ways of life in the Great Basin, Southwest, Great Plains, and Mississippi River Valley regions. They constructed complex monuments and buildings, thrived on cultivating whatever their region of land had to offer, dealt with climate changes, and also dealt with the European settlers. The first Americans lived lives that revolved around nature and the resources their environment gave them. Without its impact, they would not be able to survive. Throughout all regions above Mexico, Native Americans from all different tribes built structures that were useful to them. They built burial mounds all across the Mississippi River Valley and other regions. These mounds came in all shapes and sizes, and some even had figures of …show more content…
In general, they were the first people to cultivate chocolate, corn, cotton, peanuts, pineapples, potatoes, rubber, quinine, tobacco, and vanilla. But, in the frozen tundra of Western Alaska, Native Americans dealt with arctic conditions. They relied on hunting and fishing. They hunted seals, whales, and other marine mammals. These animals were not only useful as food, but as skinned layers of clothing that kept them warm in such climate. However, in milder regions along the northwest Pacific Coast, the people there could produce food with very little effort. The physical environment impacted them by providing marine life for fishing. In the Southwest, some of the earliest farming societies developed. Since the environment was desert, Native Americans developed complex irrigation systems for farming. They even dug wells, built ponds, and built dams to collect rainwater to water their crops in the desert weather. All across the different regions and climates where the First American lived, they all adapted to thrive in whatever environment they were dealing
Woodland Indians inhabited the large geographical area in eastern North America. The varying climates and four seasons affected how each individual group of Indians lived and ate. The Appalachian mountains and Great Lakes prohibited movement of people to some extent. Some people were able to harness the shoreline water as a means of transportation. Gardening and harvesting of crops became a way of life for these people but was sometimes complicated by the harsh winter conditions in northern Wisconsin. Utilization of natural resources controlled the economy. These Indians were very knowledgeable about the trees and plant life in their area. They used the abundant wildlife as part of their
What would you do do if you were in the wilderness and you could only use the environment to help you? What would you use to build a house? The native people and coastal people used their surroundings to help them out in the wilderness.The coastal and native tribes of the northwest interacted with their environment differently to provide food, shelter and clothing for their people.
Pg. 15 - Resources, landscape, and climate influenced the development of Native American societies by allowing them to have trade surpluses and specialize in certain goods. Landscape also affected what animals could be raised in that area.
The Woodland Indian tribes started in present day New York and extended to New England, Maryland,the Great Lakes, and Maine, where they settled. The Woodland Indians lived in the forests near lakes or streams, thats why they are called the Woodlands Indians.
The northern tribes used bones and deer antlers to make knives, scrapers, awls, fishing tools, whistles, and pendants. The first tribes denpended on agriculture were those that lived on the Atlantic Costal Plain. They learned how to make pottery and cloth. The cloth was woven with thread made from soft layers of splint baskets. They made musical instruments like pipers, rattles, drums, nd they were played during ruitals and ceremonies dances. They built two types of houses, long houses, and wigwams. The first type was formed by bending poles into a cone or dome shape and by tying the poles together with vines. The frame was covered with woven mats, bark, or hide . These people grew corn, squash, beans, pumpkins, and tobacco.
The native americans also made special tools to help them live!Here are some examples of some tools the cahuilla and the mojave made and how they made them.They made spades out of flint, stone or iron.They also made bows and arrows out of plant stems that grew on trees, stone or iron to make the arrow head, tied the arrow head onto a stick, and
The first of all, native Americans were very smart and they knew how to survive in that different kinds of environment . Because they understand how to get foods from nature and they knew using traps to hunt animals
The Indian people practiced altering their food diets and getting certain foods for the different seasons that occurred. In the Native World ecological wasn’t a place for perfection. When the weather got crazy it made the crops go bad so they relied on different food like wild plants. The Indians also didn’t think land should be property for a certain group or person. The Europeans viewed life way much different than the Indians; they valued individual wealth and progress. They thought every and any land that hasn’t been walked on or settled it was useless. The Europeans didn’t accept the fact that the Native Americans used lands and territories for hunting and fishing for
In earlier times the Native Americans who resided in Arizona, lived of the natural resources provided by the land. For instance the Hopi was known for their great dry farming skills and their ability to adapt to the dry desert climate by using different agricultural practices. Today, agriculture continues to be an essential way of life for the Hopi, and managed to keep their culture intact. Many associate their success to their tribal isolated area that is surrounded by the Navajo (Hopi People).
Mounds made by the early North American societies are by far the most impressive and eye catching structures of the woodlands in which they lived in. The mounds were enormous and could be up to 100 feet tall from the base of the ground and 1,000 feet long. These mounds were used for multifarious events, but ultimately, they were used as stages for ceremony and ritual sites. Occasionally they were used as platforms for dwellings and even as burial sites. Typically, the only societies that made these structural mounds were from the woodlands. The woodlands were about the only places at the time that you could find the resources available to make such structure. When it comes to building the mounds, you also have to consider what regions would
Agricultural based societies began to develop like the Mayans and Aztecs in the South and Moundbuilders and Mississippians in the Midwest (Mintz & McNeil, 2013). At this time people have been living in this new land for more than 10,000 years and living in this newly developed land had become easier and more sophisticated with the increasing amount of crops being used. During this time period many of the cultures developed large complex farms that were being used as a main source of food along with hunting. While hunting and gathering was still heavily used being able to rely on the food they grew was more reliable and they could generate large amounts without having to move around. While become less nomadic the size of the tribes grew and became very bonded together this meant more people working together. The growing amount of local people meant many people knew and lived together and this gave way to large ceremonies and rituals when a person died. At these ceremonies many people came together and would bury the dead and they would smoke herbs and roots out of hand crafted pipes during the burial rituals (Museum of Native American History, n.d.). With less moving they had more time to craft and make objects like pipes and hunting
Environmental ethics has widely circled around human interactions with biotic ecosystems. Little voice has been given to city residents who are overexposed to environmental hazards. It is a subject rarely touched upon by mainstream environmentalist. Though conservation efforts receive much media attention and advocacy, environmental pollution in urban areas inhabited by minorities and the impoverished receive less attention despite it clearly being a grave injustice. It fact, it can be argued that minority and impoverished neighborhoods are deliberately targeted by corporations and governmental agencies because of the inherit vulnerability of the inhabitants. It is no secret that the impoverished in this country frequently live in areas characterized
What made up the Indians communities? One of the things that made up their culture is art. I loved the Native American art. Their art was unique. All of the paintings had a special meaning. They also used all sorts of this media, including: baskets, carvings, pottery, rugs, and paintings. I think my favorite of their art is their tapestry. It was always full of beautiful detail. Every part of the art had millions of meanings. That is the best part of their art. Native American artwork can still be seen today in museums. However, their ideas are being used in our culture. We craft rugs, paintings, pottery, and even
The Southeastern Native American’s landscape/geography differs from place to place in the region. The climate of Southeast United States was important to the culture because it affected on how they lived and dressed(showed by the Native Americans dressed in the village bottom left hand corner of the project). The rain (the project showed this by putting in thunder clouds raining in the sky )is the only winter precipitation that the southeastern states will have in most areas. That rain is important to the Southeast Native Americans because the Native Americans would build villages instead of being nomads, so one of their ways of getting food would be farming. That rain is used for watering crops. Thunderstorms ( showed the thunderstorms
Environmental control refers to the belief that a person is able to “control nature and to plan and direct factors in the environment that affect them” (Giger & Davidhizer, 2002, p. 185). So, if someone thinks that they can control their environment, they will be more likely to seek out things to help their desires become a reality. If a culture places little value on environmental control, they will tend to just accept things as beyond their control. They won’t try to affect change in their lives.