Native North American Cultures

Native AmericansNation = Tribe

Native American = Indian

Cultures of the Americas

• Adena• Hopewell• Mississippian

• Anasazi• Pueblo

–Hopi–Zuni

• Plains–Mandan–Sioux

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THE HAVANA HOPEWELL CULTURE

200 BCE to 400 CE

•Hopewellian people

Inhabited:•Illinois River Valley

•Mississippi River Valley •Iowa

•Illinois•Missouri

THE HAVANA HOPEWELL CULTURE

Ancestral to:•Mississippian culture

•Cahokia (and its hinterlands)

THE HAVANA HOPEWELL CULTURE

•Illinois•Northwest Indiana•Southwest Michigan

HAVANA HOPEWELL SITES

• Southern Wisconsin • Minnesota • Northeast Iowa

HOPEWELL CULTURE

THE HOPEWELL ART CULTURE

Raven-Eagle-Hawk-Falcon motifs echo very closely the motifs from Egypt & the Incan Empire

•300 BCE•Began in Ohio & Illinois River Valleys

More a system of interaction among a variety of societies than a single society or

culture

THE HOPEWELL EXCHANGE SYSTEM

Extensive Trade Networks:• obsidian

Yellowstone area•Copper

Lake Superior•Shells

Gulf Coast

THE HOPEWELL EXCHANGE SYSTEM