• Native American Regions

The Great BasinHow would you describe these climates?

Great Basin Region

Shoshone TipiWhat do you notice about this structure?

http://www.greatdreams.com/native/nativehsg.htm

Pauite WikiupWhat do you notice?

A wikiup is a cone-shaped house covered with brush or mats made of tules. http://talkingtree.org/2007/09/11/wikiup/

Southern Pauite Home

FIGURE 16.—Tapeats, one of Powell's Southern Paiute informants, outside his house near St. George, Utah. Photograph by J. K. Hillers, 1873, from Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Collection

http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/geology/publications/pp/670/sec3.htm

Describe the Great Basin environment, climate, geography?

Describe the Great Basin Native American dwellings?

How does the climate, environment, and geography impact the Great Basin Native American dwellings?

• Native American Regions

Great PlainsHow would you describe this climate?

Short Grass Prairie in the Eastern PlainsTall Grass Prairie in the Western Plains

Native Americans of the Plains

Cheyenne Tipis

http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/C/CH030.html

Arapaho TipiWhat do you notice about this structure?

http://www.thefewgoodmen.com/thefgmforum/threads/the-native-american-indian-wars.158/

Describe the Great Plains environment, climate, geography?

Describe the Great Plains Native American dwellings?

How does the climate, environment, and geography impact the Great Plains Native American dwellings?

• Native American Regions

Northeastern WoodlandsDescribe this climate

Northeastern Woodland Region

Powhatan Village

IMAGE: The Town of Pomeiooc by John White (1585–1586). (©The Trustees of the British Museum. All rights reserved)

Iroquois LonghouseWhat do you notice about this structure?

http://ed101.bu.edu/StudentDoc/current/ED101fa10/jferraro/Woodland_Shelter.html

Ojibwe Birchbark Wigwam (1900)

What do you notice about this structure?

http://www.firstpeople.us/photographs2/Birch-Bark-Wigwam-Ojibwe-1900.html

Describe the Eastern Woodlands environment, climate, geography?

Describe the Eastern Woodlands Native American dwellings?

How does the climate, environment, and geography impact the Eastern Woodlands Native American dwellings?

• Native American Regions

Southeast WoodlandsDescribe this environment

Southeast Region

Seminole ChickeeWhat do you notice?

http://www.semtribe.com/Culture/Chickee.aspx

Replica of Cherokee Winter HouseWhat do you notice?

They were made of tree branches bent into a circular shape and then plastered with mud

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/northamerica/before1500/architecture/cherokee.htm

Cherokee Asi HouseReplica of Cherokee Asi House being built by archeologists

Asi houses are made by weaving river cane, wood, and vines into a frame, then coating the frame with plaster. The roof was either thatched with grass or shingled with bark

Replica of Natchez Asi House

Reconstruction of a Natchez house (foreground) and granary, at the Grand Village of the Natchez National Historic Landmark in Natchez, Miss.

http://www.lakotawritings.co.uk/native_shelters.htm#Wigwams

Describe the Southeast Woodlands environment, climate, geography?

Describe the Southeast Woodlands Native American dwellings?

How does the climate, environment, and geography impact the Southeast Woodlands Native American dwellings?