Native American Tribes Inuit Arctic Inuit Food Seals

Native American Tribes

Inuit Arctic

Inuit Food Seals, whales, walrus, caribou, polar bear, muskoxen, birds, and artic fox Website : )

Inuit Clothing Animal Skins sewn together made from needles made of animal bones

Inuit Shelter Igloos – Houses made of ice and snow

Kwakiutl Pacific Northwest

Kwakiutl - Food • The Kwakiutl Indians were fishing people. • Men caught fish and sea mammals from their canoes. They also hunted deer, birds, and small game. • Women gathered clams and shellfish, seaweed, berries, and roots

Kwakiutl - Clothing Men typically did not wear anything Women wore cedar bark Both wore moccasins made from deer hide

Kwakiutl - Shelter Made from large redwood trees called LONGHOUSES Also built from sod, animal skins, and bark

Nez Perce Plateau “Pierced Nose”

Nez Perce FOOD • Hunted by horseback due to the terrain • Found food in forests • Fished in small rivers, hunted small game, and picked vegetation

Nez Perce CLOTHING • Nez Perce women wore long deerskin dresses. • Nez Perce men wore breechcloths with leather leggings and buckskin shirts.

Nez Perce SHELTER • Earth houses. • They made these homes by digging an underground room, then building a wooden frame over it and covering the frame with earth, cedar bark, and tule mats.

Hopi Southwest/Desert “Peaceful Person”

Hopi – Food The Hopis were expert farming people. They planted crops of corn, beans, and squash, as well as cotton and tobacco, and raised turkeys for their meat.

Hopi - Clothing Hopi men didn't wear much clothing-- only breechcloths or short kilts (men's skirts). Hopi women wore knee-length cotton dresses called mantas. A manta fastened at a woman's right shoulder, leaving her left shoulder bare.

Hopi - Shelter Pueblos Adobe pueblos are modular, multi-story houses made of adobe (clay and straw baked into hard bricks) or of large stones cemented together with adobe. First “apartments”

Pawnee Plains

Pawnee - Food Buffalo & other easily farmed foods

Pawnee - Clothing Buffalo hides

Pawnee - Shelter A tepee is made of a cone-shaped wooden frame with a covering of buffalo hide.

Seminole Southeast “Wild”

Seminole Food • The Seminoles were farming people. • Seminole women harvested crops of corn, beans, and squash. • Seminole men did most of the hunting and fishing, catching game such as deer, wild turkeys, rabbits, turtles, and alligators.

Seminole Clothing • Seminole men wore breechcloths. • Seminole women wore wraparound skirts, usually woven from palmetto. Shirts were not necessary

Seminole Shelter Chickee houses consisted of thick posts supporting a thatched roof and a flat wooden platform raised several feet off the ground.