Social+Studies+(Daily+Class+Notes)


 * Southwest Indians**

//__**Environment**__//: desert, plato, dry, dusty soil, very little rain, mesa, clay, hot temp in the day, cold nights. (as low as 55 degrees!!!

//**__Tribes__**//: Navaho, Pueblo, Apache


 * __//Food//__**: lizards, snakes, rabbits, iguanas, 3 sisters, (corn, squash, beans), built erigation systems, cotton for clothes. (not to eat!)


 * //__Homes:__ made homes from adobe clay and called them Pueblos, apartment style homes, homes made in cliffs and platous.

//**__Workload:__ WOMEN- cooked, made clothes, pottery, baskets, took care of the babies, ground the corn into grain. MEN- hunters, traded, made weapons, farmers, made houses, warriors, made cotton into cloth. CHILDREN- followed parents around, helped parents, collected firewood, plants,water, harvested, planted


 * HOMEWORK:**

---Lesson 4**
 * Review notes on your social studies native american chart.

Native Americans of the West
__Technology__- a design and use of tools, ideas, and methods to solve problems

__Potlatch__- special feasts at which the guests, not the hosts, receive gifts.

__Totem pole__- often placed in front of the community house to decorate and mark its place of celebration or meeting.

After reading page 76 to 81 in your Our Nation text book answer these questions.......

REVIEW AND ASSESS

1. Write one sentence using each of these vocabulary word potlatch, technology, totem pole

2. What opportunities did the North Coast peoples have?

3. Analyze how the Tlingit use the environment of the Northwest Coast to enrich their lives.

4. What effect did the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement act have on people in the area?

__DRAW A CONCLUSION__ about why the environment is important to the Tlingit way of life. USE WHAT YOU HAVE READ.