Eastern Woodlands

Different groups of Native Americans lived in the Eastern Woodlands. However, they all shared an important natural resource. What is that resource?

Native Americans used trees to make

• food

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• tools/weapons

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• shelter

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• canoes

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The division of labor made it possible for people to produce more goods. Click below each job men did.

• hunted for animals

• prepared the food

• used and bones to make tools

• using spears and nets, they fished

The division of labor made it possible for people to produce more good. Click below the jobs of the women.

• fished in the region's many lakes and rivers

• prepared the food

• used animal skins to make clothing and moccasins

• planting and harvesting of crops

Match the following

• longhouses

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• wigwams

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• three sisters

  corn, beans, squash

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• palisades

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• wampum

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Click on the region of the Eastern Woodlands.

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Iroquois League

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(b) Algonquian Groups

• The Grand Council was set up to settle disputes among the people peacefully.

• Some had two chiefs.

• Had leaders who governed more than one village.

• Hiawatha and Deganawida persuaded the Five Nations to unite and work together as a group.

The Algonquian who lived near the coast did not rely on their crops for foods as much as their Iroquois neighbors. ​ (a)   was an important food source.

• Fish
• Squash
• Corn

Algonquian built ------ to fish in the rivers and along the coast.

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Among Algonquian groups, marriage ceremonies were very much alike.

Groups:

(a) If a man wanted to marry a women

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(b) If a woman wanted to marry him

• showed how to be a good home-maker.

• had to show good hunting skills.