the eastern woodlands by victor shimon and yoel. life in the eastern woodlands the eastern woodlands...
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THE EASTERN WOODLANDS
BY VICTOR SHIMON AND YOEL
LIFE IN THE EASTERN WOODLANDS
The eastern woodlands covers most of the present day east of the Mississippi river .
The name comes from the dense forest
THERE WAY OF LIFE
They used tree bark to make canoes and shelters
Next they were farmers gatherers and hunter in the field they grew , corn ,beans , squash , and other plants
The method for cleaning fields is slash and burn
HUNTING
• They hunted fish dear beaver and birds and porcupines
WHY THEY HUNTED
They hunted because so they can get animals skin for clothes
MAIN LANGUAGE GROUPS
• There called Algonquian and Iroquoian
ANIMALS THEY HUNTED FOR SKIN
• Beaver , bear skins were useful because made ropes capes and blankets .
ALGONQUIAN GROUPS
• The tribes are called Delaware's wimping's and yowhatanhs• Each tribe has 1-20 villages
IROQUOIS HAD 2 CITES
THE LARGE CITES ARE CALLED
• Seneca's Cayuga's Onondagas Oneidas Mohawks
WHAT THEY LIVED IN
They lived in longhouses
GOVERNMENT
The 5 largest Iroquois tribes shared a government
A COUNCIL MADE THE DECISIONS
VOCAB
Palisade a wall made of sharpened tree trunks
Wigwams are bark covered shelters
MORE VOCAB
• Longhouse a long wooden house• Confederations a group of gowvermant
BY WICTORR AND SHE MOM AND YOY YELLLL