Monday, December 7, 2009
Native American Vocabulary
For this week’s blog assignment, you need to write a paragraph or two that includes ALL of the vocabulary words. You can use more than one word per sentence, but do NOT try to cram all the words into just a few sentences. The paragraphs must be clear, make sense, and use the vocabulary words correctly. See vocabulary study sheet for all words that must be included.
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Native American Vocabulary assessment
ReplyDeleteThe Indigenouse sedentairy and nomadic Native Americanstold Organstories about migration and adaptions. Wile they did that they were on a mesa with a wampum around their neack. memories about the people that had cool artifacts at a ritchual.wile using a travois.
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The Native Americans that I am going to tell you about are indigenous to the Desert Region and are sedentary not nomadic.Many years ago the people of the Desert Region were on a mesa at a funeral.Some of the people were putting wampums wich are old artifacts into the grave.At the end of the funeral everyone did a special ritual to say goodbye to the person.When everyone was leaving one women told a quick origin story to the erson then left.
ReplyDelete-Ben #5
The indigenous Native Americans were nomadic and not sedentary lived on a mesa. They told origin stories about their ritual and cultural region by using artifacts.
ReplyDeleteThe Native Americans used wampum’s to remember things. When they migrate, they would use their travois to help pull their possessions. As you can see, the Native Americans had many interesting adaptations.
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The nomadic Native Americans used migration to travel over the mesa. With adaptations they made it over with all of their artifacts in a travois. They arrived in the sedentary Native Americans cultural region. The Native Americans they met were indigenous. They all traded wampums and told origin stories at a ritual.
ReplyDeleteannie#2
The nomadic native americans used travois to carry many of there supplies across the mesa. They made adaptations to many areas. Along the way they met sedentary native americans who were indigenous to the cultural region. They had a ritual where these people told orgin stories and traded wampums which is a type of artifact.
ReplyDeleteNative Americans are the indigenous people of America, meaning that they were the first people who lived in America. Some were nomadic and moved a lot. Others were sedentary and didn’t move at all. Nomadic Native Americans had to be able to make adaptations in order to survive. Early Native Americans were originally from Asia. They ran out of food and other resources and this led to a migration across a polar ice cap which is where the northern part of the Pacific Ocean is today. They eventually settled where they thought they had the best chance to survive.
ReplyDeleteNative Americans told origin stories to explain how they thought the Earth originated. Most of them had different tales and were special in their own unique way. Also, these people lived in many places and each tribe of people had to adapt to the climate of the place that they lived. There are several places that the Native Americans lived in, called cultural regions. Some examples of such regions are the Northwest Coast region, the Subarctic region, the Far North region, the Southeast Woodlands region, the Eastern Woodlands region, the Southwest Desert region, the Great Plains region, the Plateau/Great Basin region, and the California Intermountain region. Each tribe in a specific cultural region had almost the same culture and resources.
Here are a few more interesting facts about some of the cultural regions and the people who lived in them. Every tribe had rituals, a ceremony that meant something to them. The Southwest Desert people had to be able to find resources on mesas, a landform with flat ground and high rock formations. Artifacts like wampum and travois were tools used by the Native Americans. Wampum was a tool used by Eastern Woodland Native Americans to help remember messages. Travois was a platform pulled by horses to carry supplies used by the Great Plains Native Americans. These are a few facts about the amazing Native Americans.
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There are nine cultural regions in North America. These region are California Intermountain, Eastern Woodlands, Great Plaines, Plateau or known as the Great Basin, South East Woodlands, South West desert, Far North, Subarctic, and the North West. The Native American Regions were either nomadic , which means a person or group that has no permanent home, or they were either sedentary which means that a person or group didn’t migrate. Most nomadic native Americans used adaptations to survive in their new environment or these regions would need to become indigenous. Some times Some tribes would use travois for instance the Great Plains. California Intermountain, Eastern Woodlands, Great Plaines, Plateau or known as the Great Basin, South East Woodlands, South West desert, Far North, Subarctic, and the North West regions all told origin stories some times they Native Americans told them at rituals. All Native American tribes had artifacts, for instance a small white bead made from a small shell that the Native Americans used for jewelry is called a wampum. Also the Great Plains region lived on a mesa which is a land formation with steep walls and a flat top, a little like a table top. Aren’t you glad that you that you aren’t a Native American that that was nomadic or used migration?
ReplyDelete-Jill #14
The sedentary Native Americans told origin stories about the rituals they did when they lived on a mesa. The most inportant thing to them was wampums and they sometimes used it as curency. A lot of Native Americans had to develop adaptations to new climate. In the great plains cultural region, people used travois to make migration easier. Nomadic Native Americans left artifacts when they moved from place to place. the indigonous Native Americans means they have adapted to the climate.
ReplyDeleteLucas
Have you ever wondered who first set foot on America? The Native Americans. They were indigenous to America, which means they were the first people to live in here. There are nine cultural regions including Far North, Great Basin, Great Plains, California Intermountain, Subarctic, Southeast Woodlands, Eastern Woodlands, Southwest Desert, and the Northwest Coast. Some of these tribes were nomadic. Others were sedentary. Nomadic means to move around. You have no permanent home. Their migration was due to food availability and other needs. Each new migration required new adaptations to the new environment. Sedentary means to stay put. You stay in the same region and never move. Native Americans who were sedentary built homes on mesas and lived there for their whole lives.
ReplyDeleteSome of them told origin stories about their past. Origin stories are old stories of how it “all began.” An interesting fact is that all Native American tribes held big rituals to celebrate a special occasion. The Native Americans also had artifacts, like wampums. Wampums are small, white beads made from polished shells used for money or expensive jewelry. They also used travois to carry supplies, which were all pulled by horses.
As you can see, the Native Americans had an interesting and resourceful way of life. ☺
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ReplyDeleteThe Great Plains people told origin stories about their cultural region and through rituals and story telling passed on the origin stories to the next generation. The Great Plains people used travois’s used by horses or dogs to carry artifacts across the Plains. Some Native Americans had to make adaptations to their climate or region. The Great Plains people were nomadic because they would follow buffalo herds through out the region and they would also migrate because of food and climate. Some of the natives were sedentary because they built permanent dwellings. The Great Plains people used wampum for jewelry, money, usually made of shells white or black which was and to trade with other natives and non natives. There were plants, wild life and minerals like turquoise that were indigenous to the area which were also used for trade. Mesa’s were sometimes used for fortification from other muroding Natives.
ReplyDeleteJack#13
The Native Americans were indigenous to America, which means that they were the first people to be there. Some were sedentary and some were nomadic. They would use wampums and other artifacts from their cultural region to tell origin stories. Some Native Americans had to migrate a lot and so they had to make a lot of adaptations. When these Native Americans settled in one place they practiced rituals, like dancing, dressing up in their special clothing, and giving gifts. When Native Americans were traveling it was a good idea to use travois. Travois were a frame slung between trailing poles and pulled by a horse or a dog. Many Native Americans had a hard time pulling travois over mesas.
ReplyDeleteNoah # 24
Native Americans were indigenous to North America. The nomadic Great Plains Native Americans moved their houses to different places to follow the natural resources such as buffalo. They used the buffalo for clothing and food. Eastern Native Americans stayed in one area because they had plenty of natural resources. Native Americans told origin stories about how they thought the world began. They made artifacts such as tools and belongings that scientists have discovered. Some Native Americans had wampums, which were a type of money or very expensive jewelry. A travois was like a sled and was pulled by horses or dogs and were used to carry belongings. Native Americans migrated from Asia when Alaska and Russia were connected. There were nine cultural regions in North America. They were Subarctic, Far North, Plateau, Great Plains, SW Desert, E Woodlands, Pacific NW. SE Woodlands, and California Intermountain. In the SW Desert their are many mesas. Mesas are landforms like a tabletop. Different Native Americans had to make different adaptations (changes) to survive in their cultural region. Native Americans also had rituals to celebrate birth, death, and marriage.
ReplyDeleteAshley
There are 9 Native American Cultural Regions in North America. The people of these regions migrated from Asia over the land bridges in the last ice age. These people were indigenous to this land. Some tribes settled down and became sedentary, while others moved around and where nomadic. There were harsh climates, so many of them had to adapt. They probably thought it was a strange land, with strange landforms like the mesa. They made many artifacts, like the travois of the Great Plains and the wampum of the Eastern Woodlands. They had rituals and told origin stories of how it all began.
ReplyDeleteR.D.27
As a Native American I live in a mesa in a cultural region called the plains. I help people hunt for food by travelling on a travois. One day a vehicle fell and it landed on a certain type of artifact. When I got back to the village I saw women making necklaces out of wampum. They were feeling sedentary.
ReplyDeleteThe migration for birds began and one took the artifact.I wanted to go after it but it was time for the ritual of our village. In the ritual we told origin stories of all kinds. One of the stories talked about an indigenous land where nomadic people had to survive in one place during the hard cold winter. The people had to make adaptations. That is one story of the Native Americans.
#21
The indigenous, nomatic native americans who were not sedentary told origin stories about the great plains, which was the cultural region they lived in. Later they migrated and made houses on a large mesa. They make adaptations to their new surroundings. Than they had a ritual and went to visit other tribes. They carried all their stuff that they were going to trade and the wampums in their travois.
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ReplyDeleteSome indigenous native Americans were sedentary and some were nomadic. There were cultural regions where the people who lived there were similar. One cultural region is the Great Plains and they used travios to carry items. One artifact is a wampum which was used to remember messages. Some native Americans lived on a mesa. They told origin stories about how they did migration. They also practiced rituals. As you can see they had to make hard adaptions.
ReplyDelete#22
There are six native american cultural regions in the United States, with different origin stories,rituals and beliefs inherit by their ancestors. The native americans have had different kind of adaptations all due to their environment or because the migration they had to do to find better places to live (for this reason some of them are considered nomadic). Also the indigenous had created different artifacts to make their life easier, an example of this are the great plains native americans who used travois for their horses.
ReplyDeleteFor me, some of the most interesting facts about the native americans are their rituals and beliefs, I think they have some kind of magic and it is amazing how they have passed them to other generations. Another thing I like is the use of the wampums which were used as a currency or as a jewelry.
Nomady or sedentary, the native americans have have been a very important part of United States history because other inmigrants learn whow to live and survive in different kind of situations
and we still have a lot to learn from them.
Mariana#19
Some of the native Americans in North America were sedentary, nomadic, some migrated, and indigenous. There are 9 cultural regions in North America. Since they (natives) lived in different areas in the world, they had to get used to adaptations. Native Americans told origin stories at rituals to tell how the world came to be. In the desert, some natives would live on a mesa, a mesa is a big land form that is a shape of a table top. Some artifacts that scientist have found are wampums. Wampums could hold belongings, travois would be used as money or something valuable. As you can see, native Americans used and did a lot of things in their cultural.
ReplyDelete-25
Depending on the climate in the cultural region tribes can be nomadic,or sedentary. They may also be indigenous or they may migrate. Also denpending on the climate a tirbe might have to make many adaptations. In the Southwest Desert region elder's tell share their knowledge by telling origin stories about rituals, artfacts, and wampuns while sitting on a mesa. But in the Great Plains region region elder's talk about travois.
ReplyDeleteBrooke#8
The one after Annie is #6.
ReplyDeleteOnce there SW Desert Native Americans told origin stories on a mesa. This was a ritual to the Sw Desert natives. In one of the origin stories they told of a tribe that was nomadic to the land. This tribe traveled to all the cultural regions, California Intermountain, Great Plains, NW Costal, Subarctic, Far North, Plateau, SW Desert, SE Woodlands, and Eastern Woodlands. Along their travels they had to make adaptions to the different regions. The people made artifacts like spears, nets, housing, clothing, etc. Along the travels they met other Native Americans like the Great Plains people which were mostly sedentary.
ReplyDeleteThese people showed many artifacts one of the most interesting artifacts was the travois. As the tribe migrated they saw indigenous tribes that followed the Big Game. As the tribe returned home they brought back wampum, travois, origin stories, and much more artifacts. This is when the origin story told by theSW Desert natives came to a end.
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The indigenous Native Americans told origin stories to their children. These Native Americans used wampums for money and had many rituals. These people would often see a mesa while riding on a travois. These people were nomadic so they didn't have to make very many adaptations. They lived in a Native American cultural region of the USA. This tribe was not sedentary but other tribes in this region did migrate. Artifacts to us were just every day items to Native Americans.
ReplyDeleteNolan
The Native Americans were the first people to be here. That means that they were indigenous to America. Some of the Native Americans gathered together after a migration from one area to another. Some of the native Americans were sedentary. Some native Americans lived on a Mesa. In some of the cultural regions the Native Americans nomadic, it means that they wanderers. The Native Americans made a lot of artifacts like a travois. They used this to travel. The Native Americans have lots of origin stories like a ritual of when they exchange wampums.
ReplyDeleteNatalie #23
Native American tribe Elders told origin stories about the past. Here is a origin story I made up using the voice of an Native American Elder.
ReplyDeleteOne Long ago, the indigenous great tribe traveled far for suitable land. Once they found suitable land the spit into cultural regions. Some traveled and followed resources, they were nomadic. While others stayed put were resources were plentiful, these people were sedentary. But all Native Americans must migrate at one time or another. Some ancestors used artifacts called travois to move things around. Another example of an artifact is wampums, wampums are white bead necklaces. Some Native Americans lived on mesas. One thing all native Americans had to do was adapt to their surroundings.
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Native Americans were indigenous to North America. Some if these natives were nomadic so they moved from place to place. They told origin stories of sedantary natives. The native americans that were nomadic wich means they migrated so they had to use adaptation to survive. Alot of the cultural regions had artifacts and if they were nomadic they had to use travois to pull the artifacts across mesa's. They also had wampums to show their feelings and to know what happened in the past. Now you know some cool facts about the native american's!
ReplyDelete#11 C.A.