Explain two examples of cultural diversity among american indian groups?

Question

american history

Answer 1

Sure, the Hopi reservation is located within the Navajo Nation. Lots of intermingling has lead to lots of folks who have both Hopi and Navajo blood despite a history of not getting along. Looking more at Navajo, you'll see lots of intermingling with other groups - in fact there was a woman brought up in Brooklyn after being adopted out by non-Navajos - she's the first Jewish Navajo I've heard of.

The Plains Indians often intermingle especially in Oklahoma because the United States government, in its wisdom, figured Indians are Indians and placed two to three different tribes all together in one reservation.

Answer 2

indians of the northern us area were hunters and gathers that moved with the seasons. the ones in the south were more settled and had their agriculture. The natives out west had corn. All native tribes had differences in ceremonies and languages.

Southwest Archaic Culture
• Three Sisters
• Hohokam
– Southern AZ
– Desert
– Built large canals
– Grew crops and stored
them
– Reasons for
disappearance


• Subartic Culture
– Diverse geographical region
– Includes Tundra as well as dense woodland
– Hunt moose, caribou and deer
– Fish
– Climate meant short hot summers and log
cold winters
– Lived in small scattered bands

• Artic culture
– Spans several
continents
– Climate – winters long,
cold, dark and
summers are short
and cool
– Hunted sea mammals
– Hunted land animals

• Northwest Coast
– Alaska and British
Columbia = western
coast of North America
– Hunted sea mammals
– Fished five species of
Pacific salmon
– Collected shellfish
– Hunted terrestrial
game and waterfowl
– Wood resource

• California Culture
– Region west of Sierra
Nevadas to the Pacific and
south of Oregon to
northern Baja California
– Most culturally and
linguistically diverse area
– West coast – hunted sea
mammals, fished, gathered
shellfish
– Interior – more mobile –
hunted game and gathered
as well

• Plateau
– Portions of BC, OR,
MT, ID
– Major River systems
– Hunted deer and
moose
– Focused on Salmon
fishing
• Basin
– UT, NV, WY, CA, CO
– Less population – dry
climate and scarce
resources
– Lived in mobile bands
– Hunted and gathered

• Southwest
– Southern Rocky Mountains in Colorado
southwards through Sonoran Desert to
northwestern Mexico
– Puebloan groups
• Zuni and Hopi
• Lived in permanent villages and farmed
– Non-Puebloan groups
• Apache and Navajo
• Hunters and gatherers

• Plains
– Alberta,
Saskatchewan,
Manitoba to the Rocky
Mountains and the
Mississippi River
Valley
– Plains Cree, Sioux,
Omaha
– Pre-contact ==
farmers
– Horses make them
more mobile

• Southeast
– North Carolina southwards
to Florida Coastlines
– Atlantic coast westwards to
southern Appalachian
Mountains and eastern
Texas
– Cherokee, Seminoles
– Dense forest – yellow pines
– Stands of cypress,
saltwater marshes and
Everglades
– Settled village dwellers and
river valley farmers

• The Northeast
– Geographically diverse area south of
Subarctic culture area
– Atlantic coast west to Mississippi Valley and
Great Lakes
– Great Lakes south to VA and NC
– Small, nomadic bands in north
– Settled farming villages along river valleys on
coasts and interior regions

Answer 3

You need to look this up but, look at eastern tribes, Plains and maybe southern california. Nomadic vs. towns, where they live affected how they lived. Some farmed.

There is lots of info on this.