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
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
Animals were highly valued in trade because they could be used for so many things. Parts of animals could be made into tools, their fur could be used as clothing, blankets and such, and they could be used as food. Animals were a great source of food back in the days of the indigenous people. Their meat was a very important source of protein. The Dakota made things out of their bison, such as little boxes out of their hooves, and water bottles out of their bladder. Meanwhile, the Ojibwe sold their deer, mainly for clothing and other similar
War is always destructive and devastating for those involved leaving behind a trail of death and barren landscape leading to heartbreak and shattered lives. War has its subjugators and its defeated. One enjoys complete freedom and rights while the other has neither freedom nor rights. Defeated and broken is where the Eastern Woodland Indians found themselves after both the Seven Years' war and the American Revolution. The Europeans in their campaigns to garner control of the land used the native peoples to gain control and ultimately stripped the rightful owners of their land and freedoms. The remainder of this short paper will explore the losses experienced by the Eastern Woodland Indians during these wars and will answer the question of which war was more momentous in the loss experienced.
How Did The Environment Affect The Native American Indians With Particular Reference To The Woodland Indians?
The Canadian Shield is a landform region that covers almost more than half of Canada, it was formed about 3 billion years ago and was formed by volcanic eruptions. The Canadian Shield has some of the world's oldest rocks and has a lot of trees, lakes and rivers, some things the Canadian Shield provides us with is minerals, water from hydroelectric power and trees. it is a medium populated area and the population is very scattered, most of the people live in the southern area.
Demographic characteristics affect communities in Northern Canada. In Northern Canada there is mostly Inuits. At the time when they came, all the southern land was taken by other Indians, so the had to settle in the north of Canada. The Inuits have been living there for thousands of years, which is why they are still, there today. They've adapted to the cold weather and have gotten used to their lifestyle.
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.
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.
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
It was said that the best hunter or fisher would share their success with others in the band. Moose were a primary kill that they hunted them with bows and arrows. The second important kill was the caribou. They women and children would also help kill these animals to get their fur and they were in charge of bringing the animal’s home and preparing them for dinner. In the summer fish was a very popular resource since not that many fish were caught in the winter. One of the smallest percentage of food that the Cree’s did not like so much was plant foods. They did not care for much of this except for the berries that they would gather. Other purposes of the plants were for diaper material, chewing gum, medicines, and for house
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 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...
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.