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