Amerindians 3 – Lifestyle of the Indians

FOOD

NOMADIC tribes

• collecting edible plants (berries; plant roots)
• fishing
• followed the buffalo
• hunting: deer; rabbits; ducks

SETTLED tribes

• farming: maize, pumpkins, squash; beans; potatoes
• fishing
• hunting: deer; rabbits; ducks

 

HOUSING

• tents: tepee; wigwam (or wickiup) – How to build a tepee?
• houses: pueblo, plankhouse, longhouse

WEAPONS and tools

• knives; bows and arrows; war clubs; spears; harpoons (to hunt fish, even whales with); tomahawks; shileds

FOLLOWING THE BUFFALO – how it was used?

• bones: carved and sharpened to make knives, arrow heads and war clubs
• skin: clothes, moccasins, tepees, waterbags
• hooves: cups
• sinew: bowstring; thread
• tongue: hairbrush
• fat: soap; cooking oil
• tail: fly swat; decoration
• hair: filling saddles

PICTURE VOCABULARY

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A powwow:

 

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