The First Americans. You didn t discover it, we were already here.

The First Americans You didn t discover it, we were already here.

9/3/2015 Template copyright 2005 www.brainybetty.com 2 Primary and Secondary Sources Primary Source: An original, first hand account created at the time of the event or soon after. Examples: Diaries Letters Photographs Art Maps Video and film Sound recordings Interviews Newspapers Magazines

9/3/2015 Template copyright 2005 www.brainybetty.com 3 Primary and Secondary Sources Secondary Source: A second hand published account. Created after the event. Examples: History textbooks Biographies Published stories Movies of historical events Art Music recordings

9/3/2015 Template copyright 2005 www.brainybetty.com 4 Time How many years are in a century? -100 Aren t you smart! So why are centuries so confusing? For example, when we talk about the 1400 s we re talking about the 15 th century. The numbers are always 100 years behind the centuries. The same with your birthday. You may say, I took a trip when I was nine. but you actually took the trip in your tenth year. After your ninth birthday you start on your tenth year in the world. Think about it..

9/3/2015 Template copyright 2005 www.brainybetty.com 5 The First Americans Where did these people come from? -Aliens dropped them here??? - They came from the Black Lagoon??? No one knows for certain, but we have theories First, we must go back, far back in time to 38,000-50,000 B.C. into the ICE AGE

9/3/2015 Template copyright 2005 www.brainybetty.com 7 The Ice Age..brrrrr During this time much of the earth s water was frozen in polar and mountain ice caps. No, not the ones you wear on your head. This lowered sea level, or how much water was in the oceans. Think bathtub. This allowed land to connect areas where it usually didn t. We re talking specifically about, what is now, The Bering Strait. A strait is a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water. You already knew that though. The Bering Strait is flanked by Asia on one side and North America by the other. People and animals crossed this land bridge to come to North America. We call this land bridge Beringia

9/3/2015 Template copyright 2005 www.brainybetty.com 9 The First Americans Originally these people were hunter gathers-they obtained their food by hunting, foraging and fishing, rather than farming. Many of these people in Asia were nomads-they didn t have a set home. They moved with the food. As the animals, specifically the Wooly Mammoth, moved the people did as well. They migrated-this means to move from one place to another. This is the main theory surrounding the population of the continent of North America

9/3/2015 Template copyright 2005 www.brainybetty.com 10 The First Americans These people became the first Americans. They settled into different regions and formed different tribes. Many still hunted to find food, and moved where the food was. Others, settled down and became great farmers. Most Native Americans did not use money of any kind. They bartered, or traded their goods. Some tribes of the Northeast Woodlands traded with wampum-or beads or shells strung together. To the South the Maya and the Aztec sometimes traded in gold.

9/3/2015 Template copyright 2005 www.brainybetty.com 12 The First Americans Native Americans did not believe in land ownership. This would pose a problem later when Europeans came. How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. This we know: the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. All things are connected. We may be brothers after all Chief Seattle-1851