USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Why were trees more important to people of the Northwest coast and the eastern Woodlands than they were to the Plains Indians . Trees provided these peoples with wood that was used to make tools, canoes, and longhouses. The Plains did not have great forests, so they had to depend on other natural resources instead.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Eastern Woodlands Indians developed myriad ways of using natural resources year-round. Materials ranged from wood, vegetable fiber, and animal hides to copper, shells, stones, and bones. Most of the Eastern Woodlands Indians relied on agriculture, cultivating the “three sisters”-corn, beans, and squash.

Detailed explanation-3: -Common Resources. The abundance and usefulness of certain natural resources was a common element amongst many Northwest coast Native Peoples. These include western red cedar, salmon, deer, elk, huckleberry, wapato and camas.

Detailed explanation-4: -Environments ranged from boreal pine to temperate birch forests to warm swampland. The Eastern Woodlands Indians inhabited an area that ranged from the Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.

Detailed explanation-5: -Besides water, buffalo were the Plains’ most important natural resource, and millions of buffalo used to roam the Plains. The Plains people hunted buffalo by disguising themselves in animal skins, scaring the buffalo, and chasing them over the side of a cliff.