People built their villages along the banks of rivers and streams All Native Americans groups of the Eastern Woodlands shared the common natural resource of trees Trees were used to make canoes shelters weapons and produced food ID: 657655
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The Eastern Woodlands Slide2
Life in the Eastern Woodlands
People built their villages along the banks of rivers and streams.
All Native Americans groups of the Eastern Woodlands shared the common natural resource of
trees.
Trees were used to make canoes, shelters, weapons, and produced food.
Division of labor in the Eastern Woodlands: women prepared the food, and men hunted animals for food. The division of labor enabled them to produce more goods. Slide3
The Iroquois
Eastern Woodland groups were grouped by the languages they spoke:
Algonquian-speaking people lived on the Coastal Plain.
Iroquoian-speaking people lived farther inland.
Iroquoian groups (Five Nations): Great Lakes
The Mohawk: largest cultural group
The Oneida
The Onondaga
The Cayuga
The SenecaSlide4
The Iroquois Five Nations Slide5
Iroquois Villages
The Iroquois lived in shelters called longhouses: poles were cut from trees, were bent and covered with bark.
Three Sisters crop
s
: corn, beans, and squash.
u
sed wampum to make beaded designs and was traded for goods
The Iroquois League
Five Nations united as a group in A.D. 1570
Its purpose was to settle disputes among the people peacefully.Slide6
Algonquian
Coastal Plain and Great Lakes Slide7
The Algonquian
Algonquian Groups: all live on the Coastal Plain
The Delaware
The Wampanoag
The Powhatan
Some built longhouses, and others built bark covered shelters called wigwams. Trunks of trees were bent, tied together to make a dome shape, and covered with bark.
Fish was an
important resource.
They built canoes to fish the rivers.
They used animal bones and wood to make hooks and fishing traps.