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I. The Southwest•Zuni, Hopi, Apache, and Navajo•descendants of Anasazi and Hohokam•“Pueblo peoples”•corn, squash, and beans
boys, 6, joined kachina cultkachina – good spirit
kachinas supposedly visited town each year, messages from gods – wearing masksand dancing helped bring the spirits to town
legends, culturalbeliefs, art
no restrictions onvertical order
never objects of worship
Totem Poles
Nez Perce and Yakima occupied land betweenCascades and Rockies
Cascade Mountains
Shoshone Falls
Shoshone and Ute, between Sierra Nevadas and Rockies, more nomadic because land was too dry and food scarce
III. The Great Plains
III. The Great Plains
•influenced by Hopewell and Mississippian
•lived near Missouri and other rivers
Sioux warriors took scalps of enemiesgreater glory came with the “counting coup” – charge towards the
enemy and touch one with a stick (humiliating)
V. The Northeast
•2 language groups – Algonquian and Iroquoian•among first to encounter English settlers•Huron, Erie, Mohawk
The Iroquois League
•war often erupted among Iroquoian groups•late 1500s – Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk formed this alliance, peace•Great Binding Law – constitution that defined how confederacy worked•chiefs were men, women who headed kinship groups selected them
Hiawatha
Statue of Sequoyah outside the Museum of the Cherokee Indians, Cherokee, North Carolina
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