First People of Ms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Hunter-gatherers | People who lived by hunting large animals and by gathering plants for food |
| Nomads | Person who move place to place in search of food |
| Migrate | To move from one place to settle in another place |
| technology | Development and use of scientific knowledge to make life easier |
| artifacts | Objects left behind by a group of people |
| archoeologist | Scientist who study ancient people and artifacts |
| mounds | A mass of earth and stone |
| agriculture | The science of raising crops and animals for food (farming) |
| maize | Corn |
| Bering Land Bridge | The land bridge the people crossed between Asia and North America |
| Arctic and Pacific Ocean | The Bering Land Bridge separated this two oceans |
| hunter-gatherers | The earliest people to arrive in Mississippi |
| Deer and Turkey | The early Mississippians hunted this |
| Native Americans | Indians |
| Native Americans | The first people to live in America |
| Woodland Indians | Used technology such as tools made of stone or bone to plant, tend and harvest crops |
| Bow and Arrows | The Woodland Indians used these to hunt |
| Farming | This allowed the Woodland Indians to stay in one place |
| Villages | The Woodland Indians settled in these |
| Pottery | The Woodland Indians discovered how to make this |
| Mounds | The Woodland Indians built these |
| Ceremonies and Homes for local chiefs | Mounds |
| Artifacts | Found in burial mounds |
| Mississippians | They approved on many of the Woodland Indian inventions |
| Emerald Mound | Built by Mississippians is the second largest remaining mound in the US |
| Emerald Mound | Many Mississippians villages considered this their ceremonial center |
| Artifacts and Mounds | We learn more about the early people of Mississippi by studying these |
| Waterways | Most of the Native Americans settled along these |
| Transportation and Food | The Misissippians settled by waterways to use them for these |
| Natchez Indians | People who lived in southwest Mississippi |
| Mississippi River | Natchez Indians lived along this river |
| Natchez Indians | They were good farmers and raised animals for food |
| Maize | This was so important to the Natchez that they held ceremonies once a year to celebrate the harvest of the crop |
| Chickasaw Indians | Lived in the northern Mississippi and parts of TN and AL |
| Chickasaw Indians | These people had to travel a great deal to protect their territory |
| Natchez Indians | Due to their farming, these Indians could stay in one place and build large settlements |
| Chickasaw Indians | These Indians DID NOT build large setllements. |
| Chickasaw Indians | They did not have a CENTRAL leader |
| Chickasaw Indians | They were good fighters |
| Choctaw Indians | Lived in central Mississippi region |
| Choctaw Indians | Largest Native American group in Mississippi |
| Choctaw Indians | Built permanent setllements |
| Mounds | Important to the Choctaw Indian's religion |
| Woodland Indians | Were good traders |
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