US HISTORYChapter 1 – Section 3

EARLY NATIVE AMERICANS Hohokam – present day Arizona

Built irrigation tunnels and traded with coastal people (found pottery)

Anasazi – lived in the Four Corners Pueblos – great stone dwellings Pueblo Bonito – massive apartment-like in NM Mesa Verde – cliff dwelling in CO (shelter and protection) Drought – long period without rain (reason for move)

Mound Builders – PA to MS Valley Adena – hunter gatherers Hopewell (built the Great Serpent Mound)

Cahokia – largest Mound Builders in IL Monks Mound – largest building north of Mex.

OTHER NATIVE AMERICANS North – around the Artic

Inuit – built igloos, wore sealskins, hunters and fishers

West – using the land Tlinit, Haida, and Chinook (built wooden houses

and canoes, fished for salmon) Nez Perce and Yakima (between Rockies and

Cascades, fished and hunted) Pomo – Nomads that lived off the land (women

gathered and made flour) Ute and Shoshone – small temporary structures

Southwest – in the heat Hopi, Acoma, and Zuni – settled and farmed

Adobe – sundried mud brick Apache and Navajo – hunters and gatherers

Hogans – square houses

NATIVES CONTINUED Plains – largely nomadic

Tepee – cone-shaped skin tents Comanche and Dakota – became skilled riders of

Spanish horses Southeast – our backyard

Iroquois and Cherokee Federations – governments linked by different groups Iroquois women had positions of power (chose leaders)

Five Iroquois Groups – (League or Confederacy) Onondaga Seneca Mohawk Oneida Cayuga