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The First Americans
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| Question | Answer | Category |
|---|---|---|
| How did the First Americans get to North America if they came from Siberia? | The First Americans got to North America by a land bridge made by sheets of ice and glaciers called the Beringia. | 1.2 Migration Routes of the First Americans |
| How do each group of American Indians survive in their cultural region? | Each group of American Indians survive by adapting, otherwise known as changing, their style of living to suit each environment, its climate, and its natural resources. | 1.3 The First Americans Adapt to the Environment |
| How do American Indians have a strong connection to their surroundings and viewing themselves as a part of a community of plants, animals, and other natural objects? | American Indians believe that they had a strong connection to their surroundings because they believed a quote: "From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a great unifying life force that flowed in and through all things-the flowers of the plains,--" | 1.4 How American Indians Viewed Their Environment |
| How do American Indians use the natural sources in their environment? Give an example of how they find it and use it. | American Indians use natural resources for food, clothing, and shelter. (This is just one example) For example, the Great Plains use buffalo for mostly everything. | 1.3 The First Americans Adapt to the Environment |
| How did the historians group the American Indian peoples into cultural regions? | The historians used artifacts to group/organize the American Indian peoples into different cultural regions. | 1.3 The First Americans Adapt to the Environment |
| What did American Indians generally believe about nature and how they expressed it? | The American Indians generally believed that each part of nature had its own spirit, and each person had to maintain balance with those spirits. The beliefs were expressed by various customs. | 1.4 How American Indians Viewed Their Environment |
| Explain how the American Indians believed about the land and use their land differently from Europeans. | Unlike Europeans, the American Indians believe that land shouldn't be owned as Private Property, but thinking it as connected to the homeland. The Indians modified the land to suit the needs for them. They also didn't want to waste the natural resources. | 1.4 How American Indians Viewed Their Environment |
| When the land bridge started disappearing, the mammals started dying, without them, the Indians may die also. What did the Indians, or Siberian Hunters do? | Ever since the land bridge started disappearing, the Siberian Hunters had to find another type of source for food, clothing, and shelter. They became hunter-gatherers because they hunt animals, and collect edibles. They started spreading after that. | 1.2 Migration Routes of the First Americans |
| Are the historians/scientists still trying to research on the history of The First Americans? If so, what are they looking for? | Yes, the scientists and the historians are STILL trying to find out more about the the First Americans. They're looking for old written records left by the early people. They are also looking for artifacts, or objects, to go deeper into the research. | 1.1 Introduction |
| Who were the ones that lived in America first? | The American Indians. They were already there before the Europeans and the other countries. | 1.1 Introduction |
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