VA Studies 4 Flashcards
What are Virginia’s Indians referred to?
Eastern Woodland Indians
What are some ways Virginia’s American Indians (native peoples) adapted to the climate and interacted with their environment to meet their basic needs?
The kinds of food they ate, the clothing they work, and the shelters they had depended upon the seasons
How did the Indians adapt in the winter?
They hunted birds and other animals and lived on stored foods from the previous fall
How did the Indians adapt in the spring?
The hunted, fished, and picked berries
How did the Indians adapt in the summer?
The grew crops (beans, corn, squash)
How did the Indians adapt in the fall?
Harvested crops and hunted for foods to preserve and keep for the winter
What did Virginia’s American Indians make their clothes from?
Animal skins
What did Virginia’s American Indians use to build their homes?
Shelters were made from materials around them
How do Virginia’s American Indians live today as compared to the way they lived in the past?
In the past they farmed, hunted, fished, and used natural resources and animal skins for clothing. Today they live like other Americans
What is Archaeology?
The study of the people of the past
What was Werowocomoco?
A large Indian town used by Indian leaders for several hundred years before the English settlers came. I. It was the headquarters of the leader Powhatan in 1607.
What was Jamestown?
The first permanent English settlement in North America
