6C+-+Eastern+Woodlands

Eastern Woodlands

1. What First Nation tribes lived here? What are some of the geographical characteristics of this region?

**The first nation tribes that had lived there were the Iroquoian, Algonquian and some Siouan. The Eastern Woodlands are around the eastern part of the United States. Some of the geographical characteristics in that region are there were lakes, rivers, streams, a lot of empty land for farming, there was a lot of game for hunting and in there region there were many trees for building canoes. In the Eastern Woodlands they used the geographical characteristics to help them eat, live, and get transportation.**

// 2. What kind of foods was available? What did they do to obtain and preserve food? // //**The kinds of foods that were available were farming crops such as corn, beans and squash. There were many herds of North-American bison and to obtain them they used three methods (**//**1.chase them off cliffs 2.chase them into pounds 3.kill them with bows arrows or spears).// To preserve the bison they made the meat into dried pemmican. They hunted, fished, gathered plants and berries. Having farming a way of life had mostly meant living it semi-permanent houses. The Eastern Woodland peoples lived there life based mostly on farming.**

3. What kind of shelters did these First Nations groups build? What building materials did they use? How did this kind of shelters meet their needs?


 * The Eastern Woodlands lived in a shelter called dwellings. Dwellings were known as longhouses. They were made of young trees or saplings and covered with bark that was often sewn together. Eastern Woodlands also used animal skings, wood and hay to make their houses.**

4. What did they use for transportation? What is it made of?

In summer, spring and fall time the Eastern Woodlands used Canoes made of birch bark for transportation. But in winter they used sleds and snow-shoes made of wooden bark.

5. What did they celebrate? **The “Eastern Woodland” people did not celebrate much. They mostly devoted their lives to hunting and keeping each other safe. One of the celebrations that the did celebrate, was a “Cry Ceremony.” A “Cry Ceremony” was celebrated, when a member of the Eastern Woodlands tribe had passed away. The mean would start a fire and the chief had danced in memorial of the person who had passed away. They had burned the body after.** 6. How was power shared in their families, their tribe? What can you comment on the differences and similarities between the way power is shared among your family members that in this first nations group? **Power was not a big issue during the Eastern Woodlands time. The chief of each tribe usually controlled everything and the men who offered his hand in marriage to the chief daughter had a lot of power they really didn’t share!**

7. Include a picture or two and captions. On question 1 & 2.

8. Include a picture of your village model and caption.Just below

These are the huts and dwellings that Inktitut, Athapaska, Alogonquian, Siouan, Kootenay, Salishan, Wasakhan, Tsimshian, Haida, Tlingit and Beothuk lived in.

9.Include references.Type in the content of your page here. Below "Eastern Woodland Indians",http://www.mrsbogucki.com/aemes/resource/woodland/index.htm Arnold,Phyliss & Betty Gibbs."Canada Revisited."Toronto:Arnold Publishing Ltd.,1999. [] by Jamie Pheasent [] by Heidi Deters []