Chapter 7 West Virginia’s First PeopleReview
the beliefs, customs, and
civilization of a particular people
or group
before written history
What three cultures are included as prehistoric
cultures?
•Paleo
•Archaic
•Early and Middle Woodland
earliest primitive hunters
used to throw spears with more
force
studies the origin, development, customs, and
beliefs of humans
most lasting remains of the
Adena
Earthen mounds and
walls
Institute Mound – Kanawha County
items such as bits of stone, bone, pottery,
tools, cave paintings, andweavings that are left
behind by people
artifacts
In WV, where are the
majority of the mounds located?
Ohio, Kanawha, Potomac River
Valleys
largest mound east of the
Mississippi River
Grave Creek Mound,
Moundsville, Marshall County
Grave Creek Mound – Marshall County
second largest mound in WV
Creil Mound, South
Charleston, Kanawha County
South Charleston Mound – Kanawha County
needed to construct
the mounds with such accuracy
Knowledge of mathematics
Why bury their dead in vault ?
They believed in the after
life
found on Mount Carbon in Fayette
county
Walls in Tyler County
Woodland Indians changed from hunting and
gathering to -
agriculture - farming
What kind of crops did they grow?
corn, beans, squash
Woodland shelters
two methods of making fire
friction and spark
clearings made by burning off
the ground cover
Indians only domesticated
animal
Indians main of means
transportation
Indian method of education
learn by doing, skills that
were necessary for their way
of life
Method of appreciation
of their heritage
free verse poetry
What three reasons are given for the Indians’
migration?
1.Famine
2.Disease
3.Driven out by Iroquois
disease devastating
to the Indians
What Indian tribes made
up the Iroquois Nation?
Cayuga, Onondaga,
Oneida, Mohawk, Seneca, later Tuscarora
What tribes were forced west of the
Ohio River by the Iroquois?
Shawnee, Mingo,
Delaware
What the area that is WV become when the Indian tribes no longer lived here
hunting and fishing
ground
study what people leave
behind
strip of land that at one time joined together NA and
Asia
Studies origin, history, structure
of earth
Values or traditions handed
down from previous
generations
Moving from one area to another
Natural resistance to
disease
Powerful union of tribes
Middle era of Woodland
Culture
Early period of Woodland
Culture
Culture that followed the
Paleo Indians, gatherers, not only hunters
Long walls in Fayette County
Compare the size of Grave
Creek and Creil Mounds
Grave Creek is twice as big
Found inside
themounds
Found in mounds• Chambers• Shell beads• Skeletons• Mica• Copper bracelets
Conclusions from what was found in
mounds
Conclusions• Life after death• Contact with others• Form of government• Leadership• Craftsmen
Theory on the purpose of the
long walls
Defense &Worship
Purpose of Indian
celebrations
Religious(thanked Gods)
Earliest WV culture that we
have much information
Place of the foot
Place of white stone
Narrow bottomed river
River of plenty fat
doe
White foaming river
Endless mountain range
Daughter of the stars
River of fat elk
County named
for Chief
County named for
Indian Princess
County named for Indian
Tribe
Once great Indian Town
Identify the Indian Culture associated with
the following items
7-foot skeleton
Early/Middle Woodland
Clovis Point
Paleo
Farming
Early/Middle Woodland
Folsom point
Archaic
fruits and nuts
Archaic
gatherers
Archaic
mounds
Early/Middle Woodland
wooly mammoth
Paleo
woven nets
Archaic
Wigwams
Early/Middle Woodland