until 700 A.D.
mounds - at center of Adena and Hopewell communities stood small earthen mounds to inter the dead; chiefs and priests buried within mounds with important personal possessions like ceremonial axes and pipes and common people buried around mounds' periphery; Great Serpent Mound in Ohio is largest
Mississipian Indians (mound builders)
constructed much larger mounds than Adena and Hopewell and there were elaborate temples on top of mounds where priests lived and at Cahokia, Illinois, there were eighty-five large temple mounds, the biggest larger than the great pyramids constructed by ancient Egyptian Pharaohs
survival by location
Pacific Northwest Indians (Nez Perce) relied on salmon fishing
Great Plains Indians (Comanche) hunted wild animals
Desert Southwest Indians (Navaho) farmed the land through use of irrigation because arid climate created scarcity of animal life which limited hunting
New England/Mid-Atlantic Indians (Iroquois) relied on hunting, fishing, gathering due to the cold, harsh climate and short growing season
Southeastern Indians (Cherokee) were agricultural because of the warm climate, long growing season, rich and thick topsoil conducive to farming
Gulf Coast/Florida Indians (Seminole) were fishers because the sea offered a bountiful harvest
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until 700 A.D.
mounds - at center of Adena and Hopewell communities stood small earthen mounds to inter the dead; chiefs and priests buried within mounds with important personal possessions like ceremonial axes and pipes and common people buried around mounds' periphery; Great Serpent Mound in Ohio is largest
Mississipian Indians (mound builders)
constructed much larger mounds than Adena and Hopewell and there were elaborate temples on top of mounds where priests lived and at Cahokia, Illinois, there were eighty-five large temple mounds, the biggest larger than the great pyramids constructed by ancient Egyptian Pharaohs
survival by location
Pacific Northwest Indians (Nez Perce) relied on salmon fishing
Great Plains Indians (Comanche) hunted wild animals
Desert Southwest Indians (Navaho) farmed the land through use of irrigation because arid climate created scarcity of animal life which limited hunting
New England/Mid-Atlantic Indians (Iroquois) relied on hunting, fishing, gathering due to the cold, harsh climate and short growing season
Southeastern Indians (Cherokee) were agricultural because of the warm climate, long growing season, rich and thick topsoil conducive to farming
Gulf Coast/Florida Indians (Seminole) were fishers because the sea offered a bountiful harvest
//Texas for oil, etc... displayed 300 characters
