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| useful materials found in nature, including water, animals, vegetation and minerals that determined what shelters and main source of food was for each Indiand tribe |
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the continent from where archaeologists believe early Americans came from
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| scientists think that people and animals migrated over this in search of food (also known as Beringia) |
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| was an ancient campsite 45 miles south of Richmond, Virginia that is believed to be 18,000 years old |
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| American Indians used their environment to meet these three basic needs |
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| recovery of material evidence remaining from the past |
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- goods produced and used to make other goods and services
- canoes, bows and spears
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- Present-day Alaska and northern Canada (Arctic Indians)
- temperature below freezing much of the year
- live in igloos
- eat whales and seals
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- Pacific Northwest (Coastal Indians)
- rainy, mild climate
- live in wooden plank houses with totem poles
- eat fish, especially salmon
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- Southwest in present day New Mexico and Arizona (Desert Indians)
- desert areas and bordering cliffs and mountains
- adobe houses
- eat corn
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- grassland of the Great Plains (Plains Indians)
- dry grasslands
- live in teepee's
- food is buffalo
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- Northeast North America
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- heavily forested
- longhouse
- food is deer, elk, beans, squash
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- things that come directly from nature
- fish, wild animals and crops
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- people working together to produce goos and services
- people who fished, made clothing and hunted animals
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