Презентация на тему Коренной Американец

the Red Indians.
3. Nowadays.

1492, an Italian navigator named Christopher Columbus set sail

from Spain in search of a sea route to Asia. Columbus hoped to obtain access to the wealth of spices, silks and gold for which the Asian continent was famous. Six weeks later his men sighted land.

of islands east of coast of Asia, he called

the people on the first island on which he landed «Los Indios», or in English «Indians». Of course, Columbus had not reached Asia in all. He had landed in the New World (The American continent). But the name «Indians» remains fixed in the English language.

Indians north of Mexico in what is now the

United States and Canada, spoke over 300 language. And they lived scattered across the continent in tribes. To them, the continent was hardly new. Their ancestors had been living there for perhaps 30.000 years.

North America during the last ice age. At that

time, much of the earth` s water was frozen in the glaciers that covered large parts of the globe. As sea level dropped, a strip of land was exposed in the area that is now the Bering Strait. Man probably followed the big game he was hunting across this land bridge from Siberia into Alaska.

to different
environments
and spread from the far northern

reaches
of Alaska and Canada to the tip of South
America.
The chief hunting tribes were the Apache,
Blackfeet, Cherokees, Iroguios, Mohawk,
Navalo and Sioux.

farming
and the Hopi tribe was famous for
the

making of baskets, carpets, and pottery.

Pueblo of the American Southwest, lived in busy towns.

They shared many-storied buildings made of adobe (mud and straw ) bricks. They grew corn, squash and beans.

The Pueblo.

They hunted wildlife and gathered plants, nuts and roots.

After acquiring horses from the Spanish they made their living by raising food and goods from their more settled white and Indians neighbors.

The Apache.

their villages with wooden stockades to protect them from

attack by their tribe and for the glory of individual warriors.

coast harvested ocean fish and seafood. Tribes like the

Haida lived in large plank houses with elaborately carved doorposts. These were called totem poles and the figures of them were a record of the history of the family which lived in the house.

The Indians of the North Pacific

They made pottery, basket, carvings and wove cotton and

plant – fiber cloth. They traveled in small boats and foot, never having developed the wheel. Some, such as the Plains Indians, used dogs to pull a load carrying called a travois.

by the coming of the white man with his

firearms, iron cooking pots, horses, wheeled vehicles and with his diseases, to which the Indians had no immunities. The European arrival changed the Indian way of life forever.

were already in the New World when the white

men arrived were the first Americans, or America Fisters. They were also referred to as the First Families of Virginia.
The Red Indians tribes were the original natives of North America and they roamed about in freedom until the white settlers from Europe arrived and made their homes there. Since the occupation of the Land by the «Palefaces», they have lived in special allotted territories called Reservations.

dwellings used by the various tribes:

a. The wigwam

was a tent hung with bark and hides and shaped like a bee-hive.

of skins wrapped round a few poles.

The tepee

wooden hut.
The long house.

a peculiar stone and clay building of terraced houses

with doorways in their flat roots. Ladders were laid against the walls and these were drawn up when an enemy attacked them.

trackers. The old warriors taught the young boys, so

that, at an early age, they became skilful with bow and arrow, and expect at paddling their frail canoes in dangerous streams and rapids.

buffalo meat, and some tribes grew corn and potatoes.

Wampum (ornamental beads made from shells) was widely used as money.

to endure pain and suffering without crying, and they

seldom showed signs of joy and happiness.

the sun, and stars, and the «medicine man»( witch

doctor) was supposed to be able to control these powers.

skin, and adorned their heads with eagle feathers. In

winter, they added a loose mantle of bison skin.

beited, skin robe, and carried her baby or papoose

strapped to her back

the men took an active part in them. They

painted themselves in very bright colours, and danced wildly round their fires, calling loudly for supernatural aid to ensure food supplies for the future.

United States. They are proud of their own cultural

heritage, which they are trying to protect and maintain it.

remain an enduring fixture on the United States landscape,

in the American economy, and in the lives of Native Americans. Communities have consistently formed governments that administer services like firefighting, natural resource management, and law enforcement.