Hopi & Kwakiutl - Native American Tribes (Social Studies, 6th Grade)

Class 306Social Studies

4.29.2013

The Southwest

Desert- Pueblo people

The Southwest Cultural Region

ARID

(of land or a climate) Having little or no rain; too dry

The Rio Grande, Arizona, New Mexico

PuebloIn Spanish, it means “village”.

Around

1050, Hopi

village of

Oraibi was

built.

ADOBETYPE OF CLAY

RESEMBLELook like,Be Like

Hopi Village

Hopi

Home

Kivas, ceremonial chambers

Irrigation system

Kachinas dolls

Hopi belived that kachinas could help bring rain.

Rattle-snake dance

Today 7000 Hopi live on a reservation in

Arizona

Hopi ceremonial clothes

The Northwest Coast- Kwakiutl

The Northwest Coast

15000 Kwakiutl around 1700s

PotlatchGift-giving festival;A family leader hosts guests in their family's house and holds a feast for their guests, along with gift giving.Gifts could be: Chiklat blankets, dried foods, sugar, flour, or other material things, and sometimes money.

Kwakiutl potlatch

Plentiful Sturdy

RichAbundant

Strongly and solidly built

Cedar tree

Kawakiutl houses and canoes

Kawakiutl hunting

Shaman took care

of the Kwakiutl

tribe health needs.

Totem poles

Chilkatblanket