Indians Of Early America

Term Paper Title	Indians Of Early America
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Indians Of Early America

Long before Columbus discovered America their were a lot of people living here.  Their tribes lived in many different regions.  Each region had a different environment that helped explain the cultures of the tribes that lived in each region.  I am going to describe these cultures and show how they had differences and similarities.
     The first region is Eastern Woodlands.  The people in the Eastern Woodlands got their food in many ways.  They got it by hunting, farming, and fishing.  The deer and bear were the best animals for them because that was food and clothing.  They made their clothing out of deer skin and bear skin.  They farmed corn, squash, and beans, also fished in lakes and rivers.  They hunted deer’s and bears.  They lived in shelters called long houses.  The long houses were made out of wood that they cut from the trees.  Their was a society named False Face Society.  The purpose was to cure people who were ill and people who were dealing with evil spirit because they thought that the evil spirit was making them sick.  They danced so that they can tell the evil spirit to leave them alone.  Their was a chief leader for each group.  The women elected the chief leaders.
     The second region was the Plains.  The Plains people didn’t hunt a lot of animals.  They hunted only buffalo’s.  These people made their clothes out of buffalo skin.  They made their homes of sod, chunks of thickly matted grass.  They also used buffalo hides.  Their homes were called tepees.
     The third region is southWest.  These people only farmed.  They farmed corn, beans, and squash.  Their clothes were made from cotton.  These people didn’t have enough material.  They live in pueblos made of adobe.  The one good thing is that women did craftwork.  The beautiful craftwork the women made is ...

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