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