Native American Products
By Lily Z, Rosie, Kaleb, and David.
Clothing, food, transportation and tools were a big part to Native American life.
You needed transportation to hunt, trade, fish, and travel. You needed tools for everyday uses, to hunt and get food. You needed food to survive; to eat. Clothing was also a very big part of the Native American culture. All of there examples are vital for the Native Americans.
PARAGRAPHS
Transportation
By Lily
Transportation was a very important thing for the Native Americans. The Native Americans needed transportation to go fishing, traveling, trading and more. The two main ways of transportation for the northwestern Native Americans were walking and canoeing.
Walking was an everyday thing for Native Americans. The walked for hunting, they walked to almost everywhere. There were trail made for the Indians to walk on trips. Most of the trails have been destroyed by our highways and roads. Woman in the tribe usually carried things with bags and walked around because the idea of the wheel hadn’t been brought to North America yet. Walking was very important for the Native Americans
Canoeing was also a very important thing in Native American transportation. People don’t see many people in Chicago getting food by a canoe, but that is what Native Americans did. The canoe, also called dugouts and mishoons, was used for many things, such as fishing, traveling and trading. Canoes were hollowed out tree trunks. The building process of the canoe was really complicated. First you picked a tree, either white pine, oak chestnut. A fire was built at the bottom of the tree to make it easier to cut down. When it had burnt, they cut it down with a stone axe. The bark and branches were detached. It was set on fire again, and then you used a type of shell to scoop out the charred parts of the trunk, and carve the bottom. You made the ends round with an axe. Canoes were all different sizes. The biggest of the Wampanoag tribe could hold 40 people, and the smallest could hold 2. Without transportation, the Native Americans would not have been able to get food, trade, or see the world beyond them.
Tools
By Rosie
The Wampanoag’s, a Native American tribe in the Northwest, made a lot of tools made to complete their tasks. They made all sorts of tools from animal bones, stones, and wood. They made a baskets and wooden bowls out of wood and made pots out of a type of stone called soapstone. The wooden bowls and soapstone pots were most likely made by the men and the baskets were most likely made by the women. The soapstone pots and wooden bowls were made to carry foods that were not cooked. They also made tools for all kinds of things like; butchering, hunting, building, sewing, grinding, chopping wood, drilling shells, and scraping hides for clothes. They built houses and canoes out of the tools they made and the ground they lived near; canoes were dug out from the ground. The tools that they made had different reasons that they were made, from the knowledge that was gathered the reasons that they were made, to store things, to make things, to hunt things, but there could have been other reasons they were made.
The tools that were made for hunting were a little different because they had different reasons that they were made. For fishing, they used small hooks and traps to capture them and cook them, then eat them. For land, they first used spears, a long, thick, wooden pole with a long, sharp, stone at the end. The spears were hard to kill animals, they had to get close and risk getting hurt by the animal they are trying to kill. Later, they used bow, a carved out, curved, wooden pole or animal bone with one string connected to each end, and arrows, a short, thin, wooden pole with a short, sharp, stone at the end, known as the arrow head. The bow and arrows were more efficient because they could shoot from a further distance and not risk their lives, the bow and arrows also added a new food source for them, birds. The hunting tools have a clear reason for what they were made to do and affected the way they lived.
Food
By David
Food was very important to the native Americans. Some of what the Wampanoag grew green beans, squash, and pumpkin. Beans were planted with the corn. The summer vines of the beans climbed the corn stalks. They used these plants to make certain things like a pumpkin spice sauce or take corn and grind it up and mix it with certain things to makes a drink or just roast a potato over the fire. Today many Wampanoag fished they would get large amounts of fish then string them and cook over fire. Food wasn't just something the Indians ate it was a way of life.
Clothing
By Kaleb
Every tribe of the Native American culture had its unique style of dressing. People could tell what clothing style went with that specific tribe because it was different in many ways. They could tell by the different styles and the different materials they made the cloths with. Native Americans made their clothing out of beaver, racoon rabbit, and muskrat skins and fur. With the fur and skin of these animals the women made their families clothing for a four seasons. The men would something called a breechcloth; this is a long rectangle piece of cloth that goes over their belt. Typically men did not were shirts except when winter approached then they would were an animal skin around them self's. The women wore skirts and legging's It would very on the tribe on if it was optional or mandatory to wear a shirt or not. If they were to wear a shirt it would be said to be a coat or they would wear a one-piece dress's. Both men and women would where shoes called moccasin a sturdy shoe and when it got colder out side they would wear a mukluk, a heavier boot for the wintertime to keep their feet warm. Native Americans have many clothing styles that changed from season to season.
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