Thursday Jan. 24, 2013

Native Americans

Tribes

Iroquois

  • Lived in long houses
  • 60 people in a house
  • hunted anything with good fur
  • women would do the planting
  • 6 festivals a year usually for growing of their crops
  • had a council that was in the middle of all the houses

Pueblo

  • houses in cliffs
  • step formed houses with ladders
  • vegetarian a lot of corn
  • one main meal a day

religion

they believed life after death

explorers thought that the totem poles were religious but they were only for land marking

BUI-

  • Odoodem religious totem pole
  • Pueblo- series of houses
  • Potlatch- people would invite guests for a festival like share the wealth

Agriculture

  • women planted
  • hoes were made out of hip bone
  • most tools were made out of bones
  • corn beans squash
  • gathered berries and other..
  • use leather as string when fishing
  • they would dress like animals in order to kill
  • would carry deer on back so it wouldnt scare the animals away

Math

  • used symbols 

Trade

  • traded woven stuff the white man would give them weapons and horses

Language

  • couldn't write or speak well

lived off their land and did well

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