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Document Based Question

Directions: Write a well-organized essay that includes an introduction, body paragraphs and a conclusion. Support your response with relevant facts, examples and details from the documents in this packet. Include additional outside information from class work and/or homework

Historical Context:

Prior to European colonization in the Americas, Native American Tribes throughout North and South America created different cultures based upon the environment resources within the area they settled. Although they did not live the same way, each tribe learned how to use the resources around them to provide their basic needs.

Task: Using information from at least three documents and your knowledge of social studies, write an essay in which you:

Guidelines

·  Address all aspects of the task by accurately analyzing and interpreting all of the documents

·  Incorporate information from the documents in the body of the essay using proper citation (Doc __).

·  Incorporate relevant outside information (class work and/or homework).

·  Support the theme.

·  Use clear topic sentences to introduce paragraphs.

·  Support facts with details, examples and/or explanations

·  Use a logical and clear plan of organization (paragraph writing)

Document 1

  1. Name one Native American Indian group from the Great Plains.

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  1. What is another name given to the Northeast region? ______
  1. Why did the Apache and Hopi develop similar cultures? ______

Document 2

Native Americans of the Great Plains

THE BUFFALO

“With the buffalo skins they make their houses; with the skins

they make thread with which they sew their clothes and also their

tents. From the bones they shape awls; the dung serves them for

firewood, because there is no other fuel in that country. The stomach serve them for pitchers, vessels from which they drink. They live on

the flesh; they sometimes eat it roasted and warmed over the dung, at

other times raw.”

1) List the ways in which the Indians of the Great Plains used the Buffalo.

Document # 3

Directions: Use the images of Iroquois dress in order to complete the chart below

Document # 4

Using the picture above, list two different natural resources or parts of a natural resource that the Iroquois used to meet their need for shelter. Then tell how each resource has been used.

1)  Name one natural resource ______

Tell how it was used. ______

2)  Name another natural resource. ______

Tell how it was used. ______

Document # 5

THE BUFFALO POUND

The buffalo pound was a way of harvesting large numbers of bison in a similar fashion to the buffalo jump. However, the final kill location was not a cliff, but rather a pound or corral made of wood. Pounds were located in the lightly wooded areas that surround portions of the Great Plains. Here the hunters could find enough wood to build the pound. Using techniques similar to those used in the buffalo jump, the herd would be lured over many miles and then driven into the pound where they would be killed with bows and arrows and spears as they milled around.

The wooden structure of the pound was actually somewhat flimsy by modern standards. The walls were draped with bison hides, the darker sides facing in, creating the illusion of a solid surrounding wall. Once in the corral, the animals saw only solid darkness surrounding them and no visible escape. Thus they simply circled in the confines of a structure which they could have easily destroyed.

In the winter, hunters wearing snowshoes would drive the buffalo into snow banks where the animals would become mired down and thus could be easily killed. At other times they waited at watering holes where the buffalo would become less mobile because of the mud. Sometimes they would set ambushes along the well-used buffalo trails or hunt them as they swam across rivers and lakes.

In the winter, hunters wearing snowshoes would drive the buffalo into snow banks where the animals would become mired down and thus could be easily killed. At other times they waited at watering holes where the buffalo would become less mobile because of the mud. Sometimes they would set ambushes along the well-used buffalo trails or hunt them as they swam across rivers and lakes.

1.  How did Native Americans take advantage of their natural features in the geography to hunt buffalo?

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