No place like home.When the Dutch West India Company Dutch West India Company, trading and colonizing company, chartered by the States-General of the Dutch republic in 1621 and organized in 1623. Through its agency New Netherland was founded. set up a trading post trading post See post. on Manhattan in the 17th century (see play, pp. 16-19), many Native Americans were living in the area. Manhattan's name came from the Lenape Indian word for "hilly hill·y adj. hill·i·er, hill·i·est 1. Having many hills. 2. Similar to a hill; steep. hill island." These maps show some of the Indians living in the Northeast around that time. Each tribe tribe [Lat., tribus: the tripartite division of Romans into Latins, Sabines, and Etruscans], a social group bound by common ancestry and ties of consanguinity and affinity; a common language and territory; and characterized by a political and economic is shown in one place, but you could shuffle most names to different places and still be correct. Indians moved from place to place as they chose. They considered land something that humans used but didn't own. Study these maps, then use them to answer the following questions. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] QUESTIONS Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. 1. Some Europeans referred to the Lenape people as the Delaware. This later became the name of a state. What other state was named for a tribe shown here? 2. Present-day state borders are shown in gray but didn't exist then. What other current border on the large map didn't exist? 3. What tribes are shown living north of the Passamaquoddy? 4. Which tribe shares a name with a Great Lake? 5. The Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca formed an alliance known as the Iroquois Confederacy Iroquois Confederacy or Iroquois League (ĭr`əkwoi', –kwä'), North American confederation of indigenous peoples, initially comprising the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca. , or Five Nations. Which present-day state was their 17th-century homeland? 6. Powhatan was the name of a chief as well as a tribe. Which present-day state was their home? 7. Which two present-day states are shown on the inset map? 8. Tobacco was a major crop for Virginia colonists. French settlers gave that name to the Tionontati, who also grew it. Where did the Tobacco tribe live? 9. How did the Indians' attitude toward land differ from that of the settlers? 10. Which attitude do you prefer? Why? 1. Massachusetts (for the Massachuset tribe) 2. the international border between Canada and the U.S. 3. the Malisset and Micmac 4. the Erie (also true of the Huron; Lake Huron not shown) 5. New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of 6. Virginia 7. New York and New Jersey 8. in Canada (near the Great Lakes Great Lakes, group of five freshwater lakes, central North America, creating a natural border between the United States and Canada and forming the largest body of freshwater in the world, with a combined surface area of c.95,000 sq mi (246,050 sq km). ) 9. Indians did not consider land something one owned; Europeans did. 10. Answers will vary. |
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