Eastern Woodlands

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Eastern Woodlands

• By Wade R.

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Physical Features

• The physical features are many large rivers.
• Also they lived by a hilly region, plateau, and
  gently rolling plains, plus fertile soil.

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Plants

• The plants there were very many broad leaf trees,
  and also cedar trees.
• There are beautiful trees that lose their leaves
  in the fall like birch, elm, oak, ash, maple,
  hickory, and beech.
• There are pine trees, but they dont lose their
  leaves.

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Animals

• There are 350 species of birds, opossum, fox,
  skunk, groundhog, rabbit, bass, trout, perch,
  beaver, otter, muskrat, and deer.

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Longhouse

• Longhouses could hold up to 20 families.
• Longhouses were 65 feet and (20 meters) long.

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Inside of a Longhouse

• There were logs for sitting on.
• They had beds for sleeping on.
• There were fireplaces for cooking food and
  warming.
• They had tables to put their food on.

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Wigwams

• Wigwams were made of poles and bark and were
  rounded shaped.
• Wigwams were built along the sea, and wigwams
  were put together and taken down easily.

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Food

• The types of vegetables they planted were 17
  kinds of corn, 60 kinds of beans, at least 7
  types of squash, and wild rice.
• For meat, they hunted deer, beaver, and muskrat.

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Clothing

• The clothing they wore were leggings and dresses
  made from animal skins, feathers, and bones.
• The men wore caps.

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Family Life

• The kids did not go to school they learned by
  watching grown-ups hunt, farm, and carve bowls.
• The kids did jobs like carving bowls, farming,
  and beading moccasins.

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European Influence

• The European changed the way they lived.
• They traded tools, guns, glass ware, beads, and
  cloth.
• Many animals were killed for fur.

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Native Americans Today

• Now, their life has changed.
• Now they build buildings and bridges.
• The thing that is still the same is that they are
  not afraid of heights.

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Other

• The tools they used were bows and arrows, spears,
  poles, shields, wooden hoes, stone adzes, axes,
  and knives.
• For games they played lacrosse and snow snake.