Village of Pomeioc, North Carolina

 How many different historic First American/American Indian dwellings do you know?

 

• At tables ask students individually to draw a first Native American or American Indian dwelling that they learned about in school and do not share their drawing with other people at their table.

 

• Once everyone is finished, then students at each table will share their drawings and total up the different types of structures that were drawn.

 

• In a recent college class, 64% of the undergraduate students drew teepees even though only nomadic tribes of Plains Indians lived in these structures.

 

 

 

Native American Homes 

 

Pictures and a short description

 

 

LEARNING PLAN: Native American Dwellings from the U.S. Census Bureau.

 

• Highlights teepees, pueblo adobe structures, and hogans

 

 

Choose a dwelling to build and learn about:

 

Adobe Houses

 

Earthen Houses

 

Plank Houses

 

Brush Shelters

 

Wigwams

 

Longhouses

 

Grass Houses

 

Wattle and Daub Houses

 

Chickees

 

Igloos

 

 

 

 

Wigwams

Apache wigwam near Fort Thomas, Arizona, 1927 

 

 

• Wigwams are round, domed huts that were used by many different Native American cultures. Tribes in the Northeastern United States usually called these structures wigwams, while tribes in the Southwestern United States often called them wickiups.
• Click here for more information. 

 

Go here for a time lapse video of a Wigwam being built.  2x speed

 

 

Longhouses

 

Mohawk Iroquois Longhouse, New York State Museum 

 

 Building of the Iroquois Long House  2x speed

 

 

Tepees

 

 How to Build a Teepee 1.5 speed

 

 

Grass houses

 

 We Helped Build a Caddo Grass House  1.5 speed

 

Grass House Construction

 

 

Wattle and Daub homes

 

 Wattle and Daub Houses: How Native Americans Built Their Homes 2x speed

 

               Wattle and Daub Weave and Mud Structures  show 3:00 - 6:00 2x speed

 

https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/wattle-and-daub-houses-indian-mounds-video/virtual-field-trips/

 

 

 

 

Chickees

 

 Chickees from WGCU Public Media 2x speed

            

              Chickees

 

Seminole History

 

• The Seminoles of Florida call themselves the "Unconquered People," descendants of just 300 Indians who managed to elude capture by the U.S. army in the 19th century after the passage of the Indian Removal Act.

 

• The Seminole Tribe is the only tribe in America who never signed a peace treaty with the United States (Tribal website)

 

• Seminole Tribal Government

 

• A History of the Seminole Tribe of Florida

 

 

 

Pueblo de Taos World Heritage Site

Adobe houses (Pueblo homes)

 

Pueblo Homes 1:30 - 5:15  1.5 speed

 

• Some pueblos were very large with more than 100 rooms! The rooms were built in long rows and could house many families. Most pueblos had large underground rooms called kivas that were used for ceremonies and meetings.

 

• The largest adobe building in the world, and probably the most famous adobe structure standing, is the Great Mosque of Djenné in central Mali, near the edge of the Sahara Desert.

 

 

 

 

Earthen homes

 Building an EarthLodge  0:00- 3:10 1.5 speed

 

 

Earth Lodges, Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, University of Nebraska

 

 

Earthlodge, Knife River Indian Villages, North Dakota

 

 What was the impact of horses on Native people and cultures?

 

Wild Horse Migration Interactive Map

 

 

 

 

Plank houses

 

Plank Houses of the Pacific Northwest

 

 Building a Native American Plank House  1.5 speed

 

               Native Peoples of the Northwest Plank houses start at 6:30 8:30 1.5 speed

 

Igloos

 

 How to Build an Igloo: A Boy Among Polar Bears 0:00 -2:50 at 1.0 speed

 

 A Boy Among Polar Bears information (same video as above).

 

How to Make an Igloo, New York Times (must sign in to the NY Times first)

 

 

Brush Shelters 

 

 Building a Winter Brush Shelter  2x speed (NOT MUCH TALKING)

            

 

 

 

 

Learning about Biomes and Habitats

 

 Interactive map where you can explore how and when portions of the United States were ceded from Native Americans and which tribes they were taken from. 

 

What is a Biome?

• A biome is a large area characterized by its vegetation, soil, climate, and wildlife. 

 

 

The World's Biomes (University of California Museum of Paleontology)

 

Pictures of the world's 6 biomes

fresh water

marine (sea)

forest

desert

grassland

tundra

 

 

 

Habitat

 

"The main components of a habitat are shelter, water, food, and space. A habitat is said to have a suitable arrangement when it has the correct amount of all of these. Sometimes, a habitat can meet some components of a suitable arrangement, but not all." -National Geographic Resource Library

 

 

 Jamboard by Lauren Morneweck, December 2020

 

As part of this makerspace activity, create a canva or a google slide to answer these questions:

 

• What structural materials would be available in this biome to build this dwelling?

 

 

• How are heating and cooling built into the architectural design of the dwelling?

 

 

• Is this a single family, communal or apartment structure for the people living in it?

 

 

Put a photo into the Canva or google slide of the dwelling you make.

 

 

Hands-On Materials to Use for Your Makerspace

  

Empty Cardboard Cereal Boxes Small, Large and Craft Scissors Corks Glue Sticks and Glue Guns Empty Plastic Containers Legos Goldie Bloxs K’Nex Rubber Bands Posterboard Paint Swatches Paper Bags Rectangles, Squares, Ovals and Circles of Magazine Pages Cut Into Shapes

Pre-Cut Cardboard Pieces Playdoh Different Lengths of String Scotch Tape and Multi-colored Duct Tape Popsicle Sticks and Toothpicks Cubelets Keva Structures Copper Foil Tape Pipe Cleaners Magnets Cotton Balls Buttons Packaging from Cookies, Muffins, Plastic That is in Fractioned Compartments

 

 

 

 

Stunning Footprints Push Back Human Arrival in Americas by Thousands of Years

 

 

• Biggest Discovery in 100 years (reported in 2021).

 

• Puts human beings in the area of the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico some 21,000 to 23,00 years ago

 

• Early views put first humans in North America 13,000 years ago in Clovis, New Mexico as part of the Land Bridge theory between Asia and North America

 

• Researchers in the 1970s proposed first humans arrived 16,000 to 17,000 years ago by water as they moved down the Pacific Coast 

 

 

CROSS-LINK: Peopling of the Americas