Here are the notes for Monday's Quiz:
The economy of California Indians included trading, gift-giving, & sharing.
If Indians needed a resource that wasn't available in their area, they bartered with other Indians to get what they needed
Northern Coast had shells, fish, salt
Inland tribes animal skins & pine nuts
Most Indians bartered with members of their own or neighboring tribes
Gift Giving Ceremonies: if a tribe had extra food the leader would invite a neighboring tribe to a feast
Indians valued: foods, baskets, weapons, canoes, rocks & minerals *(for making tools)
Obsidian was used to make arrowheads
Ca Indians used shells & beads as money
Government
- tribes had different types of governments
- Northern Coast picked the richest man to be chief
- Indian chiefs mostly gave advice rather than laws
- women & men could be chiefs
- some tribes were lead by a group of elders
Serrano & Mojave tribes had family groups called clans
each had its own chief
chiefs could be replaced if they didn't do a good job
Mojave had war chiefs who lead them into battle
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