Number 1: The Northeastern Woodlands The Northeastern Woodland Peoples are separated into two major groups: the hunters and the farmers. The hunters are north of the farmers. They specialize in hunting game and fish. They do not grow as many plants and food as the farmers. The farmers grow a lot of different types of plants, but the most significant crops are the Three Sisters, corn, beans, and squash. The farmers of the Northeastern Woodlands do not hunt as many animals as the hunters, but they still have a fine amount of meat to eat.
Climate/Physical Features: The Northeastern Woodland Peoples had a wide variety of different trees and plants. In what is now Southern Ontario, there were deciduous forests of birch, elm and maple.
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It’s an icy cold region, with barely any vegetation. There are harsh windstorms, which makes it incredibly hard to hunt. They have a lot of tools that make living in the Arctic easier, but I still find it the hardest, and worst area of Canada to live in.
Climate/Physical Features: In the Arctic region, there were icebergs, snow, and frozen lakes. There were no trees, but in the summer, the frozen water could turn into lakes. There were a lot of harsh and cold windstorms. The winters are long and extremely cold. The summers are a little bit warmer and short. In the far north, there can be days in the winter where the sun never rises and there is no daylight. In the summer, the sun can never set and it is daylight all the time. Since some of the days in the Arctic were unusual, they had to burn the oil from animal blubber to bring light and heat to the lanterns. Having the sun and moon react this way would be incredibly confusing and hard to work with. The techniques they use to survive in this area of Canada are extremely useful, but also difficult to operate. The snow, slush, and windstorms are not an ideal weather. And the cold does not
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The seal and the caribou were extremely important and were hunted for their meat and skin. When catching a seal, they had to wait next to a breathing hole and wait for a seal to come up. Then they would quickly harpoon them. The walrus and narwhal were hunted for ivory and meat to feed the dogs. They also hunted for the beluga whale, Arctic hare, musk oxen, and the polar bear. When they hunted polar bears, but if you do this, you need to be careful because the polar bears are not afraid and can sometimes the hunter can become the hunted. Hunting polar bear must be extremely risky, and waiting outside with no shelter for a seal to appear must be very tiring. They ate every part of the animal, (meat, blubber, internal organs
For example in northern areas you will see coniferous trees, as you go south you will find more and more broadleaf trees. Some trees are: Black & White Spruce, Fir, Aspen, Alder, Tamarack, Cherry, Black Ash, Maple, Hemlock, Cedar, Willow, and Poplar. There are a variety of berries in the region; berries include; Blueberry, Bunchberry, Bearberry, Soapberry, Cupid berry, Baneberry, Gooseberry, and Crowberry, there are many plants that inhabit the Canadian Shield. There is a plant similar to grass called sedge.
The Timucua Indians lived and survived in many unusual ways; but they did it the best way that they could with the little that they had. The landscape included, grass prairies interspersed with hardwood forests of oak, hickory and beech. There villages had about twenty five houses that were small and circular, with about two hundred people living in one village
How Did The Environment Affect The Native American Indians With Particular Reference To The Woodland Indians?
The vegetation is mostly trees. There are many types of trees, Some of the trees are coniferous trees and deciduous. It is all scattered in the southern part of the Canadian Shield. The forests are all mixed with birch trees, aspen trees, tamarisk trees, black and white spruce trees, willow trees, hemlock trees, pine trees and balsam fir trees. The mixed forests are beautiful in the fall when the leaves of the deciduous trees change color.
depended on berries and hunting deer and antelope they had many ways that they could kill and
There is a notable difference between the Northern New England and Southern New England Indians. Northern Indians were tradition hunter gathers and had a much lower population concentration isolated to mostly permanent settlements. Southern Indians were mainly agricultural, had a much higher population density, and altered their environment through the use of controlled fires; which ultimately forced them to be more mobile as firewood stocks were
Towards the development of the United States of America there has always been a question of the placement of the Native Americans in society. Throughout time, the Natives have been treated differently like an individual nation granted free by the U.S. as equal U.S. citizens, yet not treated as equal. In 1783 when the U.S. gained their independence from Great Britain not only did they gain land from the Appalachian Mountains but conflict over the Indian policy and what their choice was to do with them and their land was in effect. All the way from the first presidents of the U.S. to later in the late 19th century the treatment of the Natives has always been changing. The Native Americans have always been treated like different beings, or savages, and have always been tricked to signing false treaties accompanying the loss of their homes and even death happened amongst tribes. In the period of the late 19th century, The U.S. government was becoming more and more unbeatable making the Natives move by force and sign false treaties. This did not account for the seizing of land the government imposed at any given time (Boxer 2009).
Even the Antarctic area has a couple of its own arctic regions. The climate of the tundra is characterized by harsh winters. The average temperature in the tundra area is about –27 degrees. But what is even worse is the long night. At night the lowest temperature recorded was –67.36 degrees.
Hudson Bay was the territory that the Western Woods Cree people would stay at. This was a relatively flat region that had hills basins, many rivers, streams, and lakes. These people mainly stayed in the forest area until the establishment of the European
By the mooses body proportions, antlers' shape and size, and its demeanor, the moose is the mighty symbol of the boreal and subartic zones of the entire northern hemisphere. To describe moose country, it is variously dense mixed forest, called taiga or "norhtern brush," but the other parts are open "forest tundra"
Before the arrival of Europeans in 1492, many of the ancient North Americans lived an archaic hunter-gatherer way of life. This means food was obtained by foraging and hunting. Although methods of hunting and gathering differed between regional zones, some groups had comparable tactics. Both Eastern Woodland cultures and Great Basin cultures had a wide variety of diverse environments throughout there regions and had to learn how to adapt to them. Most of the groups from the Eastern Woodland developed settlements near rivers or lakes, just like most of the groups from the Great Basin, they settled near lakes and marshes fed by rain. These hunter-gatherer groups relied on the wide variety of plants and animals offered by living near water. Some
They have a population of 60,000 but only 25,000 to 30,000 are located in Alaska.The original language is the Inuktitut and it is spoken around Greenland, Canada, Alaska and Siberia. This language is used by many people and is commonly used in schools. Housing was an important part of their lifestyle; It was the major key to survival. They were mainly located along the Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic oceans, Northern Rockies and Tundras. They were always traveling due to the seasons. During summer they would live in tents made of driftwood and poles covered with animal skin, and during the winter they would stay in igloos and used fur to warm themselves up. They had to adapt to harsh conditions, shelter, food and transportation regularly. For example, in the novel, it states, “ (Stefansson conveniently neglected to mention that many, many Indians and Eskimos have starved in the northern latitude, as well)” (Krakauer 181). If they wouldn't have adapted they would not have survived out in the wild alone. Since the weather was always different they had to be prepared. They needed different forms of transportation, such as Kayak and miaks for summer and dog sled or sometimes their very own feet for when winter came. They also needed tools such as spears, bows, arrows, clubs, stonetrapes and knives to hunt animals. Animals were a major part of their dietary. They would
The Alaskan moose are located between 60 and 70 degrees latitude in Alaska and Western Yukon. They reside in boreal forests which is an area “dominated by coniferous forests, particularly spruce, interspersed with vast wetlands, mostly bogs and fens”. and mixed woodlands which consist of both coniferous and deciduous trees where there are many fallen trees and much debris. This region receives very harsh winters, the ground is covered with snow and temperatures fall as low as −60 °F or -51.1 °C and so by early spring food is very scarce. As the warmer temperatures of late spring and summer arrive food becomes plentiful as shoots, grass and leaves begin to grow. Summer temperatures can reach as high as 90 °F or 34 °C, while precipitation in this region can range from 10 inches to 100 inches of rain per year. This mostly comes in the form of snow.
Polar bears live at the top of the world where it is a wintry wonderland. Icebergs float at the top of the cold Arctic ocean. In the winter, the temperature often falls to thirty below zero fahrenheit and the sun almost never rises. The ocean is surrounded by frozen ground.
The power of the auroras is said to be fruitful for the earth, they draw animals to certain areas so that they are plentiful for hunters. The Scandinavian people would say the lights are sunshine reflecting off of the herring in the northern sea. A welcome omen for the fishermen to reel in large amounts of f...