z6+Eastern+Woodlands

CLICK FOR THE WEBSITE //__ Eastern Woodlands __// The eastern woodlands people inhabited in the eastern part of the United States. Many tribes were found in this area, they are the Iroquois, Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora. Along with the Algonquian, this includes with the Abenaki, Massachusetts, Wampanoag, Narragansett, Pequot, and Montauk Tribes. The later people of the eastern woodlands are the Illinois, Iroquois, Shawnee, and lots of Algonquian speaking people like the Narragansett. [] WHAT THEY HUNTED: · Squirrel · Deer · Turkey · Moose · Fish · And other small game The Eastern Woodland Indians were skilled at farming although they didn’t catch on to it until later times. They were expert farmers and focused on that. They were also skilled hunters as stated above. Deer was probably the most important and abundant among the animals they hunted. They used their hooves as glue, fur as clothes, and antlers as arrowheads. []
 * THE TRIBES OF THE EASTERN WOODLANDS:**

JOBS IN THE TRIBE · Women gather berries, nuts etc. · Men fished, hunted, and cut wood for canoes · Plant food to grow Women gathered all of the food such as edible plants, berries and nuts to mix with the soup or dinner for that night. They men obviously hunted and fished and also cut down trees to make canoes so they can fish. They dried corn, berries, fish, meat and squash for the winter. []

HOUSING: · They used longhouses · Some could hold many families… · …Others could hold one family · Also used bark covered houses called wigwams · Wigwams were shaped like a dome Eastern woodland people’s houses were different from within certain tribes. Some are so big they can hold 20 families, and others were meant to hold one in smaller tribes. Wigwams were meant for smaller families. []