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NATIVE AMERICANS NATIVE
VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP WRITE ON ACTIVITY 4TH GRADE

NORTHWEST INDIANS
The Northwest Indian Culture was in what is The Northwest

today the states of Washington Oregon and northern California Many small tribes such as the the Makah the Chinook and the Makah Tillamook lived in this culture area The tribes in this culture were much smaller than the other cultures other

The Northwest Culture depended on the forests for their shelter Every home was made of wood and the whole Every home village pointed toward the water whether it was a river a quiet bay or the ocean Along the beach were the canoes covered with Along canoes covered bark matting or branches to protect them from the weather In the back of the house were wooden racks that dried fish wooden sheds for smoking fish and storage sheds

The homes themselves were quite large
They were built for more than one family There is evidence of houses that were over 1 000 feet long big enough for the whole village The houses were built with frames of large trees These were then covered with wooden planks that overlapped to keep out the wet weather There were no windows but there was a hole in the roof that let in air air

Outside of each home was a totem pole A totem pole was a tall pole carved cedar log painted and decorated The totem pole of a family might have animals birds and religious spirits carved on them The totem pole told a story of the history of the family You could tell a family s importance by looking at their totem pole

ANASAZI INDIANS ANASAZI
The Anasazi Indians lived over 1 000 years ago The The

Anasazi built their homes in a special place The Anasazi land in the Southwest was very different from the Great Plains Instead of wide open land the Southwest is made of uneven land with canyons and mesas ma suz A mesa is a landform that is mesas made of rock and that is shaped like a high flat table In fact the word mesa is the Spanish word for table table

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climate of the Southwest is very dry Much of the land is a desert A desert is a very dry place where few plants will grow Water was a precious natural resource in this culture The Indians in this culture had strict rules about the use of water Even the very young children were taught to be careful with the water they used There were very few animals in the desert This meant that the Indians could not depend on hunting to find food They had to find other ways to get food They became farmers Some important Southwest Culture tribes are the Anasazi Hopi Pueblo and Navajo

SOUTHWESTERN INDIANS SOUTHWESTERN

The Anasazi built their homes into The

the side of the mesa For this reason they were also called the Cliffdwellers The buildings that the Anasazi lived in looked like large apartment buildings These buildings had over 200 rooms and more than 400 people lived there 400

PUEBLO INDIANS PUEBLO
Pueblo Indians are Indians who live in stone or

adobe dried clay houses This is not the name of a certain tribe of Indian It is the name given to any Indian tribe that lives in the Southwest and lives in this type of home The Anasazi were Pueblo Indians because they built their homes out of stone and clay The Hopi are also Pueblo Indians Calling these Indians Pueblo Indians would be like calling the Plains Indians Tepee Indians because they lived in tepees tepees

The Anasazi men went to a special room for religious ceremonies This special room was called a kiva keeva A kiva was a round room built kiva underground at the base of the homes Only men were allowed into the kiva To get in and out the men had to go by ladder through the roof There were paintings of gods around the walls and a mysterrious hole in the floor This hole was to remind the Indians that their first ancestors ancestors relatives that lived long ago came from the belly of the earth The men would pray to the Great Spirit for things such as rain good harvests etc things

The Indians of the Southwest Culture lived in apartmentThe style buildings made of adobe clay and vegetables style adobe clay dried in the sun This type of home was especially good for areas that had very little rainfall and a hot desert climate areas

HOPI INDIANS HOPI
The Hopi Indians have lived in the same The

area of the Southwest since before the time of Columbus They lived in what is now Arizona They lived on desert land at the foot of the mesas the

KACHINAS KACHINAS
The Hopi Indians believed in many gods The Hopi The

used Kachinas to talk to their gods Kachinas were Kachinas Hopi spirits or gods which lived within the mountains Hopi dancers would dress like Kachinas to represent or stand for the gods Wooden Kachina dolls were made to teach the children about the gods The Hopi believed the Kachina costume gave magic power to the man who wore it They felt a man needed magic to talk to the gods Hopi Kachinas talked to the gods by singing and dancing The Kachinas danced and sang for rain They did their dances over and over their

Sometimes the gods did not seem to hear the Sometimes

Kachinas and hear the Kachinas right away for it would rain and rain It would not rain for weeks At other times the gods seemed to hear the Kachinas right away for it would rain and rain right

RESOURCES
The First Americans

There were many Indian tribes in the early days of America