PRESENTATION OF INDIANS BY:KALEB AND JACOB

1. PRESENTATION OF INDIANS BY:KALEB AND JACOB

2. Aztec Indians The Aztecs came into Anahuac,the valley of Mexico,in A.D. 1168.The date 1168 does not tell us that the Aztecs actually started their settlement there.Dr.Vaillant believed,that at this time the Aztecs,who were then cultural nonentities,had began to use a calender which had been in use for thousands of years.At least in so thickly settled an area as the valley of Anahuac they were so insignificant that there arrival at the lakes passed completely unnoticed.There is no record of their arrival in the forest of Chapultepecin the generation about A.D.1250.

3. Mississippi Mound Builders Although the first people entered what is now the Mississippi about 12,000 years ago, the earliest major phase of earthen mound construction in this area did not begin until some 2100 years ago. Mounds continued to be built sporadically for another 1800 years, or until around 1700 A.D. Archeologists, the scientist who study the evidence of past human lifeways, classify moundbuilding Indians of the Southeast into three major chronological/cultural divisions: the Archaic, the Woodland, and the Mississippian traditions.

4. CHICKASAW INDIANS

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6. Olmec Indians The Olmec were the first one of the first civilizations in the Americas and were the mother culture of many Central American Native cultures. The Olmec called themselves Xi (pronounced shee). The Olmec thrived in the forests, rivers and savannas of the Gulf of Mexico from 1200 to 400 BC. Their territory began at the Valley of Mexico and reached to Guatemala. No one is certain where the Olmec came from or how they go to South America, but they most likely descended from the hunter gathers that first entered the Americas

7. CREEK INDIAN The Creek Indians (or Muskogee) belong to the Muskhogean linguistic stock. The historical Creek, a union known as the Creek Confederacy was made out of the remains of the several separate tribes that occupied Georgia and Alabama in the American Colonial Period. It is believed that the Creek culture began as a way to guard against other larger conquering Indian tribes of the region. The Confederacy was in constant flux, its numbers and land possessions ever-changing as small bands joined and withdrew from the alliance

8. Mayans Indians

9. Cherokee Indians At the time of European contact, the Cherokees numbered about twenty-two thousand and controlled more than forty thousand square miles of land. Their homeland consisted of parts of eight present states: the Carolinas, the Virginias, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. The original holdings were gradually eliminated by more than three dozen land cessions with the British and the United States between 1721 and 1835. By 1819, Cherokee territory included only the adjacent mountainous areas of North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. In December 1835, the Treaty of New Echota ceded the last remaining territory east of the Mississippi. In exchange the Cherokees received equivalent holdings in what is now northeastern Oklahoma.