1By: Jaclyn Barsa

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LONG BEFORE the white man set foot on American soil, the American Indians, or rather the Native Americans, had been living in America.

It is believed that the first Native Americans arrived during the last ice-age, approximately 20,000 - 30,000 years ago through a land-bridge across the Bering Sound, from northeastern Siberia into Alaska.

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1. Algonquin

2. Iroquois

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They inhabited most of the Canadian region south of Hudson Bay between the Rockies and the Atlantic Ocean.

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For most of the year they lived in settled villages of

birchbark houses, called waginogans or wigwams.

They were designed

so they can be

moved easily.

Usually women

worked together to

build the wigwams.

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Algonquin baby doll

Algonquin male doll

Dolls were usually made of perishable materials likecornhusk, palmetto fiber, or bundled pine needles.

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Iroquois means "rattlesnakes." 

They call themselves Haudenosaunee which means "people building a long house."

"eer-uh-kwoy"

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1. Mohawk 4. Oneida

2. Seneca 5. Onondaga

3. Cayuga

“Five Civilized

Tribe”

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Longhouses

1. Hold a family of 30 – 60 people

2. Could be 25 to 150 feet long

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Dolls were usually made of perishable materials like cornhusk, palmetto fiber, or bundled pine needles

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http://www.nativetech.org/games/index.php

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Native Americans – American Indians – The First People of America; History of Native American Tribes, retrieved from http://www.nativeamericans.com/ on July 3, 2007.

Learn About Native Americans, retrieved from http://www.ahsd25.k12.il.us/Curriculum%20Info/NativeAmericans/index.html

on July 3, 2007,

Algonquin Indian Fact Sheet, retrieved from http://www.geocities.com/bigorrin/algonquin_kids.htm on July 3, 2007.

The Algonquin Indians, retrieved from http://www.kateritekakwitha.org/ancestry/algonquin/algonquin.htm on

July 3, 2007.

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Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Indian Fact Sheet, retrieved from http://www.geocities.com/bigorrin/iroquois_kids.htm on July 5, 2007.

NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art, retrieved from http://www.nativetech.org/games/index.php on July 5, 2007.

Picture from slide 7, retrieved from http://www.indians.org/ on July 3, 2007.