Native American Tribes of Florida

Which powerful Native American group included at least 50,000 people?

• Apalachee

• Tequesta

• Timucua

• Tocobaga

What did the Calusa people use to make tools?

• fish bones

• shark teeth

• a shell or a stone

What did the Tequesta tribe use to carve out canoes?

• fish bones

• shark teeth

• a shell or a stone

What did the Tocobaga tribe tie to the end of a stick to make an adz?

• fish bones

• shark teeth

• a shell or a stone

What do the Tocobaga and Tequesta tribes have in common?

• They both hunted and fished.

• They both only farmed for food.

• They both made jewelry out of shark's teeth.

• They both used pottery to decorate their buildings.

What do the Apalachee and Timucua people have in common?

• They both farmed.

• They both used shells for jewelry.

• They both lived in rectangular huts.

• They both lived in small family groups rather than villages.

Did the Apalachee people live north or south of the area where the Calusa tribe lived?

• north

• south

Did the Tequesta tribe live north or south of the area where the Tocobaga tribe lived?

• north

• south

What is one thing all the Native American groups in Florida had in common?

• They came to Florida from the south.

• They came to Florida after 1000 CE.

• They used metal tools to make things.

• They used resources around them to live.

Why did Native Americans in different parts of Florida in the 1400s develop different ways of living?

• They came from different countries in Europe and brought their own cultures and ways of life with them.

• Different cultures developed after a Civil War treaty was signed and the tribes returned to the land of their ancestors.

• The population became to large for one area, so the tribes migrated to different places and because they could not communicate easily, their cultures developed differently.

• Florida's great variety of climate, terrain, and natural resources in different parts of the state.