Central Algonquian languages

Subarctic Region The people of Inuit, Yup’ik, Unangan, and other Native Americans Indians have lived in the harshest environment on Earth from Siberia, across Alaska and Canada, and to the East of Greenland along the coast of the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean. From Labrador to the interior of Alaska the Athapaskan, Cree, Innu, and other Native’s people lived in the subarctic region of the land. These people had the ability to depend on their years of knowledge of the sky, ice, ocean, land, and animal

are what archaeologists focus on, while historians focus on things like writings. • In Central America, China, and Egypt, writing derived between the ancient peoples in these places around 8,000 years ago. • The ancient people who were alive during the time of the millennia, didn’t work with writing to interact across time and space, the way we did. They created a variety of different spoken languages. • Since these ancient people did not work with writing, this made an obstacle for the archaeologists;

The area that constitutes New York City today was originally populated by the Lenape people. These autonomous groups of Native Americans were “dozen-odd groups” who lived between today’s Eastern Connecticut and central New Jersey. They spoke an Algonquian language, lived in seasonal campsites, and dedicated their lives to fishing, farming, and hunting. The first European to enter the New York Harbor was the Florentine navigator Giovanni da Verraza, who was at the time searching for a northwest passage

IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY by Loretta Hall OVERVIEW The Iroquois Confederacy, an association of six linguistically related tribes in the northeastern woodlands, was a sophisticated society of some 5,500 people when the first white explorers encountered it at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The 1990 Census counted 49,038 Iroquois living in the United States, making them the country's eighth most populous Native American group. Although Iroquoian tribes own seven reservations in New York

3) The Great Lakes • To the west, Algonquian speaking people, including Ottawas, Ojibwas, and Potawatomis, or as all together called Anishinaabe, dominated the Great Lakes ο Clan identities, such as beaver, otter, sturgeon, deer, and others, were what allowed them to distinguish between the tribes ο As a result of such diverse cultures and groups, Europeans remarked the landscape as “bewildering” and “an infinity of undiscovered nations” • Extensive network of lakes, rivers, and birchbark canoes

2 Outline and Terms 1. The Native American Experience Before the arrival of the Europeans to the Americas, the Americas already had a large number of people living there in empires or hunting and gathering groups. a. First Americans i. 1st movement of people into the Americas: from Asia who went over the Bering Strait (see terms) by land during the Ice Age ii. 2nd movement: due to the melting of ice, the bridge was no longer available, so people migrated to the Americas by water across the same

Pocahontas? The Disney princess children love? The one that married John Smith? There is something about her background story that has captured so many imaginary minds. Her name is very well recognized, everyone knows who she is, but not the true story of her. The story of her and John Smith became one of the most popular tales spread all over America. Many of her facts and stories have been twisted. Not many people know who she is. They think that they know her because her name is so well known

Ohio i/oʊˈhaɪ.oʊ/ is a state in the Midwestern United States. Ohio is the 34th largest (by area), the 7th most populous, and the 10th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state's chief and largest metropolis is Columbus. The name "Ohio" originated from Iroquois vocable ohi-yo’, meaning "strong anabranch" or "large burn". The state, originally partitioned from the Northwest Territory, was admitted to the Union as the 17th state (and the first under the Northwest Ordinance) on March

recently arrived English colonists back to the coast. And, it took years for towns and urban centers to recover from the carnage and property damage. The war is named for King Philip, the son of Massasoit and chief of the Wampanoag nation. In his language, his name was Metacom, Metacomet, or Pometacom. In 1662,

Chapter 1 Lady of Cofitachequi: Cofitachequi was a paramount chiefdom encountered by the Hernando de Soto Expedition in South Carolina. They encountered the Chiefdom of Cofitachequi in April of 1540, at the Mulberry Site, a large platform mound at the junction of Pine Tree Creek and the Wateree River, near present-day Camden. Paleo-Indians: First Americans. Nomadic hunters of game and gatherers of wild plants, they spread throughout North and South America, probably moving as bands composed of