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Native American Indians

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Early settlers thought the Native Americans were
Savages
Louisiana Indians arrived at about _____ B.C.
10,000
Historians identify two time periods of Indians, the ___________ and the ________ indians.
Prehistoric and the Historic
Prehistoric Indians
10,000 B.C. to 1514 A.D. - no written records from tribes
Historic Indians
1514 until now - written record from tribes
Prehistoric Indians crossed over into North America through a ____ ______ that was formed during the ice age.
Land bridge
What's the difference between a tribe and a band?
Bands were four or five families living together and tribes were larger groups of bands
There are were War cheat war chiefs and peace Chiefs. What did they do?
The war chief lead the wars and the peace chief made peace
What was the shaman's position in the tribe?
religious leader and medicine man/doctor
Louisiana Indians are classified as the ____________ _______.
South eastern Indians
Why did the settlers think that the Indians were savages
They were less clothing and they were more wild. Their way of life was different than the settlers were used to.
Each Indian tribe had their own language. How many different languages were there?
48
Indians had a close relationship with ______. They lived off the land. They used the _________ around them.
nature and resources
The homes of the Louisiana Indians were _____ and ___________. there were no teepees.
round and rectangular
The Native Americans taught the European settlers many things what were some things that they taught them?
How to survive on the new land what crops to plant and how to deal with and insects
Archaeologists have informed us about prehistoric Indians through finding ________ _________.
Cultural artifacts
________ _________ left records of early Indian tribes in Louisiana.
European explorers
Who were the first cultural nomads who migrated during the seasons?
Paleo Indians
What kind of food did the Paleo Indians hunt?
They hunted big game
The ice age was ending and the climate in food sources change so new. For Indian tribes begin what were those Indian tribes called?
Meso Indians also known as the archaic Indians
What types of different foods did the meso Indians eat?
They eight different types of foods such as seafood and they became a hunter gatherer society so the gatherers gathered different plants in the hunters hunted different animals
How did the Meso Indians cook their food?
They heated up rocks and they steamed their food
What a great thing did the Meso Indians the accomplish?
They tamed the first dogs
What type of Indians were the meso Indians?
They were nomads
Large are the nouns were found in four locations in our state. They are found in _____ ______, _____ _____, _______,________, and __ ______ ________.
Avery Island Baton Rouge Lincoln Ouachita and St. Landry parishes
Are the nouns that were built ____ years and are the oldest known earthen structures in North America.
5,400
Archaeologist are not really sure why the earthen mounds were built. they were thought to be the ________ _______ for different tribes.
Cultural centers
The final cultural era of the prehistoric. Lasted from ____ B.C. to ____ A.D.
2000 BC 1600 AD
The ___ ______ tribes started to make pottery, with bows and arrows, and they developed farming.
Neo Indians
The _______ _____ _______ were the cultural and political center of the Indians in this time period.
Poverty Point Indians
The large mounds were built in a ____ ______
Half circle
Poverty point Indians were considered to have an...
Advanced culture and way of life
There were estimated to be about _______ to _______ ________ Indians win the first explorer set foot in Louisiana.
12 to 15,000
The ____________ _______ Louisiana handles concerns of their people.
Inter-Tribal Council
The council has broken the Indian tribes into different groups. Those different groups are...
Atakapa Caddo Chitimachas Choctaw Coushattas Houma Tunica and the Biloxi tribe
By the ____'s most of the Indians lived in small villages. They mostly ______.
1700s and Farmed
The _________ right quick changes to the Indian culture.
Europeans
The _________ started to take over the land and eventually the tribes lost all of their land.
Europeans
In ____ the ______ _______ ___ was passed. This act forced the Indian tribes off their lands for the white settlers to claim.
1830 and Indian removal act
Indians were forced to live on ____________. Children could not attend ______.
reservations and school
Today Louisiana Indian tribes are fighting to be recognized by the...
Government
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