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By: Cyrus W, Tyler W, Noah W, Sebastian VS

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By Mickey, Minnie, Winnie, Tigger

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By Sean, Dasha, Loren, Noel

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The Choctaw traditionally lived in central and southern Mississippi. They also stretched into eastern Louisiana and western Alabama.

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The Choctaw tribe lived in settled villages.  They lived in houses and had small cornfields that they relied upon for food.  For food, they also ate other vegetables like squash but the tribe did not rely on meat for their diet. The tribe also celebrated a festival called the Green Corn Festival, which is still celebrated today.

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By Dylan, Emily, Vivianna

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The Choctaw's first encounter with settlers was with Hernando de Soto in October 1540. The Spanish demanded treasure, and the Choctaw refused, resulting in a devastating battle for both sides. Centuries later, they came in contact with the French. Though they distrusted newcomers, they set up trade with them and the British.

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The Blackfoot people were traditionally nomadic and they moved alongside buffalo herds. They relied on buffalo and bison for food, clothing, shelter, fuel, etc.  Blackfoot people were considered militaristic, strong, and warrior-like. Dedication and courage were celebrated. Blackfoot tribal groups lived in bands ranging from 80 to 200 people.

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On March 28th, 1830, President Andrew Jackson and Congress passed the Indian Removal Act forcing the Choctaw to leave their land and move westward where they now reside in Oklahoma, Approximatly 4,000 Choctaw died in the trail of tiers. In total there are 158,774 Choctaw left in America.

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The Blackfoot tribe’s encounter with European settlers was peaceful, they even did trade with them throughout their expedition. The U.S. government made efforts to end inter-tribal warfare in 1855, and the Blackfeet, and their ally the Gros Ventre, were given most of Montana east of the Northern Rocky Mountains. However, like with all the other tribes in Montana, the land was taken away through deception from the U.S. government. They became impoverished with a shrinking territory and disappearance in bison.

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The tribe encompassed the Great Lakes, New York State, Quebec, and Ontario

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The Navajo Region, otherwise known as the Navajo Nation, is a reserve for the Navajo people. It spans a cross section of the borders between Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. The Hopi tribe occupies land inside the Navajo Nation.

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By Nolan, Kiryl, Kelsey, Heidi

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The Navajo people are often described as Hunter-Farmers, with men being the hunters and women tending to the land. they are a semi-nomadic people that do not live in dedicated villages. Generally they band together near sources of water.

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The Blackfoot or Blackfeet Indians reside in the Great Plains of Montana and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Originally, only one of the Niitsitapi tribes was called Blackfoot or Siksika.

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The Cherokee are primarily located in Northern Oklahoma and Southern California, as well as many of the states in the southwest.

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The Navajo first had contact with early explorers in the late 1600s. The Navajo helped in the Pueblo War of Indepence where they forced the spanish back into Mexico. However, in the late eighteenth century, they fought against the spanish again and fell into spanish slavery.

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Early in the 19th century, the Blackfoot were thought to be around 20,000 people. By the turn of the century, less than 5,000 people remained due to diseases brought by white settlers, such as smallpox and measles, as well as starvation and conflict.

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The Cherokee for a long time had peaceful interactions with British settlers. They were trade partners and even became a military alliance in the battle against Tuscarora and the French and Indian War. The Cherokee also sided with the British during the American Revolution.

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The Iroquois lifestyle was very rural, most of them were farming people. Iroquois women did most of the farming, their role would be planting crops of corn, squash, and harvesting berries. While the Iroquois men did most of the hunting, fishing in the nearby rivers, and hunting deers. Both genders took part in expressing their cultures through storytelling, artwork, and music.

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The Cherokee were a very farming focused group. The women of the tribe primarily being the ones to do the farming and harvesting, and the men of the tribe doing most of the hunting of both big and small game like deer, bears, turkeys, and rabbits.

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They were removed from their homelands by the United states in the 1860s. From there they took the infamous "Long Walk," in which were subject to an ethnic cleansing and reacting by migrating 250-400 miles across American.

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In 1838 and 1839, the Cherokee people were removed from their homeland by U.S troops because of increasing cotton demand and the discovery of gold on their land. Some resisted but most were made to walk the Trail of Tears. In the present day around 500,000 Cherokees live around northeastern Oklahoma, North Carolina and Tennessee.

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The Apache tribe was a nomadic tribe, and their lives mostly revolved around the buffalo. Meaning, They had a lot of equipment and furniture which was made from buffalo skin. For food supply they mostly hunted buffalo and used horses as transportation and hunting.

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Originally repelled all European settlers from their lands but soon started to make treaties with them after more settlements outside of Iroquois territory started appearing. They started trades with the Europeans and were able to acquire guns and other foreign resources.

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The Apache tribe lived in a large region called the Gran Apacheria, which covers from Western Arizona to Eastern Texas, and from Northern Colorado to Southern Mexico.

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While at first the Apache were very accommodating to the new settlers, unfortunately this wouldn’t last. Because of the Mexican governments bounty on Apache scalps (people would actually rip/cut off the scalps of people), some of the settlers took part in the genocide for the money(monetary gain), ending the good relationship.

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The Apache Wars (1849 to 1924) were a series of conflicts between the US Army and the Apache tribe. After the Mexican-American War (1846), US citizens turned to Apache lands to raise crops, livestock, and mine. The Apache-Mexico Wars began at the arrival of Spanish colonists and ended in 1915. The current Apache population is 30,000, and there are thirteen Apache tribes residing in five reservations.

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By: Anabel Y., Braeden K, Marisa J.

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they were decently peaceful with the settlers. they rarely had any conflicts with them and even signed 51 peace treaties with the US government. This was more than any other tribe.

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The Chippewa tribe was also known as the Ojibwe. They were hunters, fishers, and farmers. They participated in Northeastern woodland culture. Many adopted the lifestyles of the buffalo hunters of the Great Plains due to their location. They had their own language but it was similar to that of the Algonquin people.

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The Iroquois were too welcoming and accepting of the European settlers, causing them to forget that their constitution prohibits war. Nonetheless, they went to war with the European settlers and got forced out of their old lands.

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By the 18th century, the Chippewa occupied a large amount of land from Lake Superior to Lake Huron and Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

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They lived peacefully and had treaties with the Europeans that were around them. When the revolutionary war hit they were on the losing side. They then got pushed North near Minnesota. The Chippewa population is approximately 320,000 people, and there are 170,742 living in the US. Most Chippewa's in the current day of age are Natives, some are mixed blood, with French and English. They have reservations in Canada and the United States.