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How was society organized into different levels or classes?

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What is the government or power structure like in Native Societies? Who ruled? How were they selected?

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What lasting works did Native Americans create? What scientific or technological improvements did they create?

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What did Native American groups believe? What were some of their religious traditions?

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How did this society use its resources, like goods or money? Did they trade with other groups? What did they trade?

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How did Native Americans use the different resources available to them? How did their environment affect their way of life?

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The Olmecs built giant stone heads to honor their leaders.

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The Aztecs killed thousands of captives each year to please the sun god and make it rise everyday

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The Hohokam‘s lived in present day southern Arizona about to 2000 years ago they dug networks of irrigation ditches so that so that they could farm the desert land the ditches carried water from from the salt and Gila rivers to fields were farmers produce corn squash and beans.

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The aztecs used wood and mud to make places to plant the things they need

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Builders carved roads in rock cliffs

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The society used there resources by building canals to make a stable food resource

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Most native Americans believed in pleasing the spirits and the main spirits name was “ Wakan Tanka”

“Mason”

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Native Americans believed a lot in nature they believed the world was full with unseen forces and spirits

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Pueblo Indians perform a harvest dance - ronnie

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The Natives would adapt to many different environments by seeing what clothes they would need and what food there was.

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the believe great spirit called wakan tanka

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The maya priests had to know exactly when to praise their many gods.

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They traded things that they didn’t have in there own region for things they needed Like copper breads foods ~Taveha

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The Aztec priests and studied the heavens and developed the complex calendars  (Derrick)

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They used building canals to make a stable food source

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The Inca hade a god and at the center of their city there the god was his name was sapa Inca

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In farming regions tribes had a ceremony during rain season so they could get good rain fall through the whole year

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There empire stretched 2500 miles (Patrick)

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Religion: every year when they catch their first fish they chant a prayer “we have come to meet alive, swimmer, do not feel wrong about what I have done to you, friend swimmer, for that is the reason why you came, that I may spear you, that I may eat you, supernatural one, you, long-life-giver, you swimmer. Now protect us, me and my wife.”

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The Inca emperor was always in the middle of the palace and he was known as Sapa Inca and believed to have descended from the sun God.

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There most powerful nobles were the kings (Patrick)

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the U.S. government  has an underlying contract with the tribal nations that the tribes possess inalienable powers of sovereignyt

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The ruler of the Natchez tribes feet never touched to ground as he was carried by people or he walked in mats

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Native Americans believed in spirits and forces that they honored

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When they did prayers and ceremonies it was meant to maintain the balance between the people

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Maya priests learned how to predict eclipses

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Indian burial mounds stretch from Wisconsin to Florida

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The Mayans made a calendar that was almost completely right even though it had 365 days

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They created spoons and cups out of horns and weapons from bones

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For building and growing like making sure they have enough plants and roots to have food like corn carrots etc.

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The Aztecs used floating gardens to harvest

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They use there resources to build structures

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When the maya cities where abandoned they created another town short after that

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They built homes

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The ruler of the Natchez was known as the Great Sun and worshipped as a god