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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• canoes

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• shelter

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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

• three sisters

  corn, beans, squash

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• longhouses

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• wigwams

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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

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

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

• had to show good hunting skills.

• showed how to be a good home-maker.