The document discusses pre-contact Native American cultures in North America. It asks who lived in America before it was a country, and how they got there. It also questions how we can understand cultures that no longer exist and did not write things down. Finally, it challenges the claim that all Native Americans were the same and did not change their environment, introducing topics about migration, diversity among cultures like the Pueblo and Iroquois, and living in harmony with the land.

1. BELLRINGER
What groups lived in America
before it was a country?
How did they get there?

2. BELLRINGER
How can we understand a culture
that doesn’t exist anymore and
never wrote anything down?

3. BELLRINGER
Why would anyone claim that
Natives were all the same and
never changed anything in their
environment?

4. 1.1 – PRE-CONTACT
EQ – Evaluate the claim that
Native Americans were a
homogenous group that lived in
static harmony with the land.

5. MIGRATION

12. DIVERSITY

15. PUEBLO

25. IROQUOIS