FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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They were able to grow plenty of food in the summer.
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They had to travel long distances to hunt seals.
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When food was scarce, the families shared seal meat.
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They held potlatch celebrations to share their many resources.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why did the economy of Native Americans living in the Article cause families to band together? They were able to grow plenty of food in the summer.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why do you think Inuit groups had to share food to survive? Food was scarce in the Arctic, the Inuit had to share to survive. How might limited resources affect the ways in which people live? People with limited resources have to find as many uses as possible for every resource in their environment.
Detailed explanation-3: -How did the people of the Arctic adapt their shelters to the resources that were available? The people in the Arctic used blocks of ice to build their shelters in the winter. In the summer, they built them out of sod or lived in tents.
Detailed explanation-4: -These people are called the Inuit (sometimes known in the past as Eskimos). From early times, the Inuit adapted their way of life to the frozen land and sea of the Arctic. There they hunted for caribou (reindeer), seals, birds, and fish.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Columbian exchange generally had a destructive impact on Native American culture through disease, and a ‘clash of cultures’, whereby European values of private property, the family, and labor led to conflict, appropriation of traditional communal lands and slavery.