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Eastern Woodlands
Eastern Woodlands Native Americans
Question | Answer |
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What was an important natural resource shared by all the Native American groups in the Eastern Woodlands? | Trees |
What did the Eastern Woodlands people use trees for? | Food, shelter, transportation (canoes),tools, and weapons. |
How as labor divided among the northeastern Woodlands people? | The men hunted animals and fished in the lakes and rivers, while the women prepared food, built houses, and used the animal skins to to make clothing and moccasins |
What did the people in the southern Woodlands grow? | Corn, beans, squash, wild rice, and other plants. |
What type of shelters did the Eastern Woodlands build? | Wigwams and Longhouses |
What are wigwams and longhouses made of? | bark and branches (poles) |
How many families could a longhouse hold? | 15 to 20 families |
What form of government did the Eastern Woodland Native Americans practice? | The Great Council of a League |
What was different about longhouses and wigwams? | Wigwams were dome shaped. Longhouses were long and rectangular |
How did the Eastern Woodland Native Americans travel? | Canoes |
Were the Eastern Woodlands nomads or sedentary people? | Both, the people who moved around lived in wigwams and the permanent villages built longhouses. |