The Early Native Americans

By BJ Groh

Our work on historical American culture taught me about the early Native American tribes. This section taught me that the different tribes lived in different regions over the North America. I learned that all of the tribes in the same region ate the same type of food, of meat, nuts, and berries; they wore the same types of clothes, such as deerskin in the summer fall and spring with buffalo cloaks in the winter. They also lived in the same type of shelters. I also learned that they all shared the same types of religious ceremonies, such as the green corn dance just before New Years. All of these in some way had a connection with the climate, and their location, for example the Choctaw wore deer because where they lived it was warm most of the year round. Finely I learned that the people in present day learned things from the early Native Americans, and the early Native Americans adapted to a few of our inventions.