Native American Culture Areas map

Step by step directions

Grading

1 point for each key item1 point for each correct color label1 point for each location label35 points possible+ extra credit available for labeling and coloring

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Step 1: Create a Key along the margin of the map

(Write each culture area and draw a box in front of each area to fill in with a different color. Do NOT color the map, just the key)

Step 2: Label Locations(This should be done BEFORE you

color the culture areas)

Step 3: Color the Culture Areas

• Make sure you match the areas with the key you made

Some Information to Know

• The Arctic and Subarctic regions fall across Alaska• The Brooks Range is in the _______ region• The Rocky Mountains do ___ run through

Mesoamerica• The Great Lakes lie in the Northeast region• The Colorado Plateau is in the Plateau region• The Appalachian Mountains run through the

___________ and _________ regions

Indian Tribes

Choctaw Indians• Lived in the Southeast region• The Choctaw are native to the

Southeastern United States and members of the Muskogean linguistic family, which traces its roots to a mound-building, maize-based society that flourished in the Mississippi River Valley for more than a thousand years before European contact

• Forcibly removed from Mississippi to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears

• Sixteen years later, in 1847, they sent $170 in donations to the Irish poor who were starving due to the Potato Famine (diseased 1845-1849). Although other crops were being grown, they were marked for export by the British rulers.

Chumash Indians• Lived in the California region• The Chumash Indians were able

to enjoy a more prosperous environment than most other tribes in California because they had resources from both the land and the sea

• With an oral tradition, much history was lost when the Chumash Indian population was all but decimated in the 1700s and 1800s by the Spanish mission system

Indian Tribes

Comanche• Lived in the Great Plains

region• They are the stereotype

Indian living in teepees and going to war.

• Comanche is the Ute word for “enemy”

• In their language, they call themselves Numinu (the people)

Cheyenne Indians• Lived in the Great Plains

region• The U.S. government forced

the Cheyenne to move to Oklahoma during the 1800's, but some escaped and fled north into Montana. Today there are two Cheyenne tribes, one in Oklahoma and the other in Montana.

• Their government was lead by 4 from each tribe and ALL had to agree before action could be taken (consensus).

Apache Indians

• Lived in the Southwest region• Around the 1730s, the Apache Indians began to

battle with the Spaniards. The battles were long and bloody, and often resulted in many deaths. Finally in 1743 a Spanish leader agreed to designate areas of Texas for the Apaches to live, easing the battle over land. In a ceremony in 1749, an Apache chief buried a hatchet to symbolize that the fighting was over, thus the term we use today, “bury the hatchet.”

Geography Test Prep(35 question test)

• U.S. Geographic Regions foldable• Water Features foldable• Native American Culture Areas map