This document discusses how geography, climate, and resources affected how various American Indian groups met their basic needs. It explains that natural resources come directly from nature, human resources are people working to produce goods and services, and capital resources are goods produced and used to make other goods. American Indians relied on resources in their local environments like animal skins, plants, sod, stones, and wood to meet needs for food, clothing, and shelter depending on where they lived. They used natural resources like fishing, hunting, and growing crops as well as human resources like people fishing and making clothing, and capital resources like canoes, bows, and spears.

1. USI.3C: AMERICAN
INDIANS
Geography, Climate, and Resources

2. Essential Knowledge
 Geography and climate affected how various
American Indian groups met their basic needs.
 Resources influenced what was produced and
how it was produced

3. Types of Resources
 Natural resources: come directly from nature
 Human resources: people working to produce
goods and services
 Capital resources: goods produced and used
to make other goods

4. Geography and Climate
 How did geography and climate affect the way
American Indians met their basic needs?
 In the past, American Indians fished, hunted,
and harvested crops for food.

5. Geography and Climate
 Clothing was made from animal skins and
plants.

6. Geography and Climate
 Their shelter was made of resources found in
their environment, such as sod, stones, animal
skins, and wood.

7. Geography and Climate
 The American Indians had to rely on the
materials around them to meet their basic
needs.
 Think about the five tribes. What resources
would each tribe have used to obtain food,
clothing, and shelter? Remember, they have
to rely on their geography and climate!

8. Resources
 How did the American Indians use natural,
human, and capital resources?
 Natural resources: American Indians fished in
rivers, hunted animals, and grew crops.

9. Resources
 Human resources: People who fished, made
clothing, and hunted animals were examples
of human resources.

10. Resources
 Capital resources: The canoes, bows, and
spears were examples of capital resources.