The Creeks

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The Creeks

• By Jon R., Jon S. Matthew N., Matthew C. Kevin

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HOMELAND

• The Creeks lived in Georgia and Alabama.
• Most Creeks groups lived together in valleys near
  rivers.
• There were many farms and products and many crops
  were they lived.
• The chiefs house was used for meetings parties
  and other events.

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HOME LAND

• When there were 400 to 600 houses they would
  build another village.
• The chiefs house was sometimes called the great
  house.

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CLOTHING

• They used animal skins to make cloth.
• The shoes were made of leather.
• Women wore deer skin shirts and a grass shawl
  over there shoulder.
• Men wore a square of deer skin hung from a strip
  of rawhide around the waist.
• Children did not wear any clothes until they were
  12 or 13.

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FOOD

• The women and children gathered nuts , berries,
  roots, herbs, and other plants.
• They grow squash, beans, and corn.
• Men caught fish in the rivers with spears and bow
  and arrows.
• They hunted deer, bear, rabbits, and squirrels.
• They hunted with bow and arrows, spears, and blow
  guns.

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GAMES

• One of the games were the little brother of war.
• Games were almost as important as farming,
  hunting, and fishing.
• The fields were over 200 feet long.
• In the game of the little brother of war there
  can be terrible injuries or even death.
• They played games at the Green Corn Festival.

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FAMOUSE CREEKS

• Chief Tuscalusa was one of the first Creeks to
  encounter Hernando De Soto and his Spanish army.
• In 1539, De Soto and his forces marched in to
  Tuscalusas village. Chief
• Tomochhichi was another great creek mico.
• His village has on the site of what is now
  Savanhha, Georgia.

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References

• The Creek Indians by Ellen Scordato
• The Creeks by Elizabeth Hahn
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