Презентация на тему I am your friend from America

another...
and we care about you.

A Long

Time Ago... Indians Lived Where You Live Now. In Big Villages and Houses... Our Moms Gardened... Our Dads Hunted...

Spanish Conqistadors found Native people living in large villages

all over "The Island of Florida." You call it America today. Most villages were near rivers.
Their biggest river, the Mississippi, ran through the heart of their Nations. Other rivers flowed into it, like the one they lived on, the Tennessee River. They called all of them "The Great River." They were their highways. Indians canoed them for thousands of miles every day.

was always warm inside. He kept it that way

by tending the fire. That was his job. He kept the fire going like his ancestors did... They did that when they came here from Asia during the Ice-Age. Their word for "Home" was "The Place of the Fire!"

dwelling. It is called a wigwam. It is the

first type of their house. It is kind of a tent on a skeleton, made of thin trunks, it is covered by a mat, a bark or branches. It has the dome-shaped form and represents a body of Great Spirit. It is the oval-shaped form personifies the world as the whole, steam is - a visible image of Great Spirit. It makes cleaning and spiritual transformation. To go out on the light from this dark room means to leave all dirty.

dance of the sun in it. It is also

a sacred place. There is a column in the center, personifies the world axis connecting the Sky and the Earth. The column leads to the Sun, as a symbol of Great Spirit. The flue provides access to Heavens and an entrance for spiritual force.

hunters of buffalo. This meant that they had to

follow the buffalos herd when the animals moved from place to place, looking for fresh grass to eat. This required that they be able to unpack and move to another location quickly. They needed a shelter that was portable, durable and water resistant. The tipi was perfect for that. It is the another type of the dwelling.

was water resistant and easily disassembled. The tipi's structure

consisted of lodge pole pines placed and secured in a cone. Then 14 to 20 buffalo hides were sewn together in a circle with sinew, and stretched across the poles with a smoke hole at the top. A flap was designed to enter and exit the dwelling.

a tipi cover, and only a few did the

cutting and matching of the skins. This knowledge was passed on within the family, or was conditionally sold to someone else. In some tribes, this was a right possessed by only one woman in the village.