North American Culture
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North America
Before the Europeans explorers had arrived, the descendants of the prehistoric pioneers and later migrants - the Native Americans - had formed a variety of tribes throughout North America. Each tribe was related. Some were simple nomads who roamed through the west of the continent, while some were forest dwellers who worked as hunters and fishermen. The southwest region of North America was home to the farming people of the Pueblo country, inhabiting substantial cities of stone or adobe (clay). In the Four-Corners (Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico) area was where the Anasazi people (a.k.a. the “ancient ones”) were settled. Their culture began in about 100 BC. Along the Mississippi we villages of the Mound …show more content…
Some Native American people made a lot of their clothing out of deerskins or the skins of the other animals. Others wore clothes made of yucca and turkey feathers. While some wove clothing out of bark strips or strands of hemp. Men wore decorative hats with feathers. In the cold south near the artic, they made boots out of seal skin. For food they grew crops, hunted, fished and gathered wild plants. The men had to hunt while the women farmed and gathered. Some of the foods they ate were pumpkins, bison, deer, moose, blackberries, fish, corn, nuts, beans, and potatoes. Through rituals and prayers, they tried to please the spirits. Often their rituals included dances. If the spirits liked their dances they would give, in return, rain for their next crop. Some believed in various gods and practiced the Sun dance. They hand made pottery, wove baskets, and made jewelry to wear. Native Americans used what ever resources they had to built their shelter. They used caves for rain, cold wind, a place to hide for protection from animals and enemies. They lived in cone, dome, and rectangular-shaped houses or wigwams. They also lived in teepees, or wickiups (a frame of wood held together with yucca fibers and covered with brush), and hogans. Some built their homes out of adobe (sun-dried bricks), others made their home out of logs, brush and mud. Other Native Americans lived near the cold artic and used igloos for shelter which were houses made of snow and
North America
Before the Europeans explorers had arrived, the descendants of the prehistoric pioneers and later migrants - the Native Americans - had formed a variety of tribes throughout North America. Each tribe was related. Some were simple nomads who roamed through the west of the continent, while some were forest dwellers who worked as hunters and fishermen. The southwest region of North America was home to the farming people of the Pueblo country, inhabiting substantial cities of stone or adobe (clay). In the Four-Corners (Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico) area was where the Anasazi people (a.k.a. the “ancient ones”) were settled. Their culture began in about 100 BC. Along the Mississippi we villages of the Mound …show more content…
Some Native American people made a lot of their clothing out of deerskins or the skins of the other animals. Others wore clothes made of yucca and turkey feathers. While some wove clothing out of bark strips or strands of hemp. Men wore decorative hats with feathers. In the cold south near the artic, they made boots out of seal skin. For food they grew crops, hunted, fished and gathered wild plants. The men had to hunt while the women farmed and gathered. Some of the foods they ate were pumpkins, bison, deer, moose, blackberries, fish, corn, nuts, beans, and potatoes. Through rituals and prayers, they tried to please the spirits. Often their rituals included dances. If the spirits liked their dances they would give, in return, rain for their next crop. Some believed in various gods and practiced the Sun dance. They hand made pottery, wove baskets, and made jewelry to wear. Native Americans used what ever resources they had to built their shelter. They used caves for rain, cold wind, a place to hide for protection from animals and enemies. They lived in cone, dome, and rectangular-shaped houses or wigwams. They also lived in teepees, or wickiups (a frame of wood held together with yucca fibers and covered with brush), and hogans. Some built their homes out of adobe (sun-dried bricks), others made their home out of logs, brush and mud. Other Native Americans lived near the cold artic and used igloos for shelter which were houses made of snow and