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Migration Routes
The first people who came to America from Asia 15,000 years ago migrated in the last Ice Age**.**To stay alive they depended on big game to eat,and use the bones and fat for tools and oil.Many people believe that the first people who came to America were from Siberia.The paths to their new homes were called **migration routes.**

Environments
The Native Americans lived in very many environments, such as [|grasslands]** ,deserts ,  **mountains, aProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 even theArtic Ice Fields!!! Here are some websites that talk about the Native American environments:

@http://www.cnie.org/nae/arctic.html @http://www.cpluhna.nau.edu/Research/native_americans1.htm

Adaptations
Native Americans had to adjust they way they lived according to the environment. We learned that one group called the Inuit had to adapt to the harsh environments of Alaska. They were known as the Eskimos. They began to hunt animals like the whale, walrus, seal, and even polar bears. They ate the meat and used the skin to make clothing and shelter. The burned animal fat for fuel. They used the bones for tools like knives and harpoons. They also used the skin to cover their tents made out of driftwood. To keep warm, the Inuits used the fur or skin and to protect their eyes they made snow goggles out of bone or wood.

Word Bank
Big Game: Large Animals that are hunted for their flesh, skins, and other valuable body parts.

Migration: a movement of people from one country or area of the world to a new home in another country or area.

Adaptation: changes in a way of life that allow people to survive in a particular environment.

Northwest Coast:
The picture that shows the totem poles and the wooden houses is a picture of a Kwakiutl home meant for several families.The house is made of a certain type of wood. Cedar wood. The totem poles are also made of cedar wood. Now on these totem poles here, the Indians carved figures of animals, humans, and spirits. These carvings told the Indians important events in the family's history and indicated the family's social position.

California-Intermountain
We have the California-Intermountain region. All of our tribes were nomadic. They moved after they used all of the food such as rabbits, ants, and berries. We had sevreal tribes like the Pomo and the Miwok (mi-wak). They used the redwood trees for there shelter.Pomo made clameshell necklesses and beautiul baskets. They mostlikly moved becuse of the hot and cold climnts. We also had the Shoshone and Paiute tribes.

Southwest
The Southwest Region was a dry region.

Great Plains
The Great Plains stretched from Texas to Canada.The Great Plains Region was also stretched from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River Valley.It is the biggest region.The tribes were very rich in Buffalo.In fact,they thought the buffalo were sacred.The buffalo fed them,and provided every-day things with their hides and bones.The tribes worked together and weren't against eachother or anything.The tribes were the Cheyenne,Pawnee,Comanche,and the Sioux.Almost all the artifacts were made of buffalo hides because the skin was thick.One of the artifacts were the buffalo hide shield.They were about one-inch thick and could stop an arrow.I think they needed those because other tribes from other regions could try to intrude and take their precious buffalo.Since the Great Plains stretched in the South and the North,the weather could be unpredictable.That is the reason why they had buffalo-skin teepees and blankets.When they were hot,they would be kept cold and when they were cold,they would remain warm.Like a buffalo does in the Great Plains Region.They couldn't tell what the weather was going to be like,so they relied on their skin to take good care of them by adapting to the weather,and keeping their bodies at the right temperature.I still have one question about my region:Where did buffalo wings come from?My guess: Somebody gave some buffalo Redbull.


 * Buffalo Hide Blanket** **and a Buffalo Hide Teepee**
 * Buffalo Skin Shield**

Southeast
Native Americans of the south east region was close to Ohio of valley to Gulf of Mexico

Eastern Woodlands
This culture consisted of Native American tribes inhabiting the eastern United States and Canada. The Eastern Woodlands were moderate-climate regions roughly from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River and included the Great Lakes. This huge area boasted ample rainfall, numerous lakes and rivers, and great forests. The rich earth and forests from the Ohio River to the Gulf of Mexico comprised the southeastern part of the Eastern Woodlands. This culture region abuts the Plains Culture to the west and the Subarctic Culture to the north. media type="youtube" key="Z1vXwXci_mI" height="285" width="340"