Eastern Woodland Indians Tribes Created and Presented By

Eastern Woodland Indians Tribes Created and Presented By Pam Pirtle Recreated & Presented by Alison Francolino

Tribes The group of Native American known as the Woodland Indians is made up of several tribes. These are some of the major tribes. Delaware Wampanoag Huron Narraganset Powhatan Iroquois Mohawk Oneida Onondaga Cayuga Seneca Tuscarora

Location These tribes lived eastern part of the United States. They lived there long before the Europeans came to this continent. The people of these tribes found everything they needed to live in the forest. Map of the area the Eastern Woodland Indians lived.

st 1 Natural Resources All Native Americans use the natural resources around them in order to survive. • The WOODland Native Americans used WOOD from the TREES. • They used the WOOD from the TREES to make their homes, tools, and for weapons. •

nd 2 Natural Resources The other natural resource that was used was DEER that were found in the WOODS (another word forest). • They would eat the DEER meat and also use the skin for clothing and warmth. •

Shelter The Iroquois Indians lived in wigwams and longhouses.

Wigwams were made by bending young trees to form the round shape of the home. Over this shape pieces of tree bark were overlapped to protect the Indians from bad weather.

Longhouses were long rectangular homes. Longhouses were made by building a frame from saplings, or young trees.

The Iroquois village consisted of two or more longhouses. In the early years the longhouses were built near streams.

Longhouses The longhouse was large enough to hold a family of 30 to 60 people. It could be 25 to 150 feet long. Each family had a space about six by nine feet for a personal area. The family space was separated from the rest on the longhouse by leather curtains. In the personal space a seat was built against the wall.

Clothing Their clothing was made mostly from hides of animals. In the winter, the men wore shirts, leggings, and moccasins made of buckskin. Buckskin is clothing made from the skins of animals, mainly deer. The women wore skirts they had woven from the wild grasses, covered with furs, with leggings underneath.

Moccasins are made of buckskin. They are shoes that wore and some people still wear them today. They look like slippers.

Dyed quills decorated moccasins in red, blue and violet. These are Seneca quilled moccasins

This is a picture of the traditional dress of men in many of the Eastern Woodland tribes.

Wampum belts and necklaces were made from wampum beads. These beads were actually white and purple shells. Wampum was used as money between white man and Indians. Wampum belts were used as a form of communication between Indian tribes. Wampum belts would be made into pictures showing the reason it was made. All Indian messengers carried wampum belts when going to other tribes

This is a sample of a wampum belt. The Great Chain, or Covenant Belt, is generally thought to be a belt presented by the U. S. government to the Iroquois in 1794 at the Pickering Treaty at Canandaigua, N. Y. Adapted from The Native Americans. Edited by B. & I. Ballantine. 1993

Food Many of the Eastern Woodland tribes hunted small game such as deer, rabbit, and bear. Since their villages were usually near the ocean, streams, or lakes, they also fished using spears and nets. Berries, nuts, and wild plants were important forms of food.

Food Many of these tribes were considered to be excellent farmers. They had large farms which grew corn, beans, and squash. Corn, beans, and squash were the most important crops planted. They were know as “The Three Sisters” as they were also grown together.

Tools An ax was created from stones to help with carving, splitting, or chipping wood and stone into the needed items.

Tools Arrow points and spear points were carved from flint stone and attached to the shaft for arrows or spears as needed by the men using them.

Tools The men created dugout canoes from tree logs. They used carving and wood burning to create the canoes.

Sometimes the Indians wore corn husks masks or painted their faces to frighten away the evil spirits.

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