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Native American Shelter

Native Americans used trees to construct thier homes 500 years ago. Men went into the woods and cut down small trees and laid them to dry so they could be poles that would hold up the houses. They use saplings, tree bark, elm trees, chestnut trees, birch bark & cattail. They used cattail and birch bark in wigwams. They used birch bark and trees to make long- houses. They also used spears, axes & peeling bark tools these are both for wigwams and longhouses. Trees were very helpful to Native Americans.

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Northwest Native American Clothing

What type of clothing they wore

The Native Americans of the northwest hunted, they wore certain clothes to hunt. They wore animal heads to disguise as animals so there pray would think they were an animal, they tried to blend in. They also wore animal heads to have good luck from the animal spirit that they were wearing. They wore shoes. Their shoes are made out of moss or feathers. Men’s shoes were knee high. Women’s shoes were taller. All of these clothes were worn to hunt.

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Food from the plains

Introduction

This piece of work is about the wonders of what the plains people of 600 years ago ate. If you think this is going to be boring just give it a try. This is going to be great. I do not have much more to say, so let get rolling

Hunting Buffalo

The plains Indians ate many kinds of food but their main source of food was buffalo. When they hunted buffalo a medicine man would herd the buffalo to a cliff. He could do that because he was wearing a buffalo hide. It helped him because he would look like a buffalo. Men behind rocks would jump out from hiding and wave buffalo hide at the buffalo. The buffalo would get scared and run of the cliff. If the buffalo did not die there were men on the bottom with bows and arrows. That is how the plains Indians hunted buffalo.

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Southeast Native American clothing

I studied the southeast Native Americans and how they lived 500 years ago. I studied what they wore when it was warm and when it was cold. I also studied how they prepared their clothing, how they decorated themselves, and how they did their hair. Most of the information that you will read is about the Cherokee tribe and the Shawnee tribe. In the next few pages I will explain what Native Americans wore 500 years ago.

In the warm months Native Americans wore all kinds of different clothing that NYC people do not wear today. For example children under eight wore nothing. Men and older boys wore deerskin shirts and breechcloths. A breechcloth is a band of deerskin that they hang from a belt on your waist. Women and older girls wore deerskin wrap around skirts. They wore the skirts with nothing for a top. These are the clothes that Native Americans from the southeast wore in the warm months.

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Food

Introduction

In the next few paragraphs I will tell you how the northwest Native Americans hunted and fished five hundred years ago. Back then Native Americans were only Native Americans. It was pre European contact. Pre means before so pre European contact means before European contact. If you want to learn more about the northwest Native Americans and how they fished and hunted keep on reading.

Hunting

The Native Americans in the northwest mostly fished but they did some hunting too. The northwest Native Americans hunted a verity of animals from grasshoppers to antelopes. To get the grasshoppers they burn the grass they are in and when the fire is over they collect the grasshoppers. Then they roast them and eat them while they are still crisp. They hunted prairie dogs and lots of other stuff but mostly they hunted JACK RABBITS! For larger prey, they usually used snares and deadfalls. Snares are ropes with a loop at the end attached to a bent over sapling. When an animal steps in one a trigger makes the sapling snap up. When the animal is trapped they kill it. Deadfalls are holes covered up so they look like ground. Those were most of the ways to hunt animals on the northwest coast.

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Arts, Recreation, and Entertainment of the Southwest

Intoduction

In the next page and a half I will tell you about the Native Americans of the Southwest. The period that I am going to tell you about is about 500 years ago (the early 1500’s). I will be touring you through the art, recreation and entertainment of, mainly, the following tribes, The Hopi, The Apache, and The Navajo (Na-va-ho). I might tell you about things that you do or do not already know. You might be surprised, impressed, get a weird feeling or even be bored (because you already know something)! These are just a few pointers, the real information about the Native Americans of the southwest’s, art, recreation and entertainment is in the next 5-7 (depending on what you think counts) paragraphs. Let us begin our journey!!

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Native American Research

I studied the Native American northwest shelter from 500 years ago. The people of the northwest lived closest to the Pacific Ocean. On the next few paragraphs I’m going to tell you what kind of shelters the people of northwest lived in, how did they lived in the houses, and how long it took to build the houses. Many tribes lived in different houses kinds of houses like the plank houses and many more, but we won’t talk about all of them.

Plank houses were made with a lot of planks.planks are long thin pieces of any type of wood. It took a long time to build each plank house because you also had to carve a totem pole. Totem poles are long tree trunk. Plankhouses are rectangular houses made of wood. Also plank houses were made for thousands of years. They were richly and beautiful decorated with carvings. Plank houses are also called longhouses because they are long. The Native Americans that used the plank house never took the house down. Plankhouses are ever lasting houses.

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Native American Clothing of the Northeast

Introduction

I am studying Native Americans of the northeast. My category is clothing of the northeast about 500 years ago. I’m going to talk about what everyone wore, what women wore, what men wore, and what children wore. Also what the process of making clothing is, what types of shoes they wore, and what types of materials, special occasion and also what types of clothing did they wore in different seasons.

What They Wore

Women and men of the northeast wore a lot of clothing. Children didn’t wear so much. They wore some of the same types of clothing and some different types of clothing. Everyone wore deerskin clothing but also other types. They wore leggings and sometimes a blouse or vest. In the winter they wore fur robes and leggings. They wore rabbit skin mittens, gloves, coats, hoods, blankets, skirts, belts, and cloaks.

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Clothing of The Southwest

Introduction

In my writing you will learn all about the Southwest’s pre-european clothing. Hopefully after you read it you will have more of an idea of what the Southwest’s clothing looks like. In the Southwest I mostly mention these regions: Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache. The Southwest is the one of the only regions that weaved string (fiber) to make clothing.

What did they wear in different seasons?

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Spiritual Beliefs

Introduction

I am studying the Spiritual Beliefs of the Native Americans living in the Northwest 500 years ago. Each paragraph has a different topic to it. Each paragraph, though, has something to do with spiritual beliefs. I also studied vision quests, stories, and more. One of my big topics is ceremonies and parties. Everyone in a tribe might have a different opinion on a certain spiritual belief. Here, there are five paragraphs on only five of the many categories in spiritual beliefs.

Ceremonies

The Native Americans on the northwest coast loved big parties and ceremonies. One very big party was called a “ potlatch.” To host a potlatch, the Native Americans would have to be rich. It could take a family years to prepare for a potlatch. When Native Americans on the Northwest Coast went to potlatches, they would usually arrive in canoes. At a potlatch, it was good manners to stuff themselves (eat, eat, eat!) People would gather for a potlatch to celebrate a marriage, birth, or to honor an important tribe member’s death. Some times, they would honor a certain spirit. If you were hosting a potlatch, the more you give away, the more you were respected. Powerful chiefs got better presents than ordinary tribe members got after a potlatch. They got the better presents because they were more respected by more people. Yes, the Northwest Coast Native Americans loved, and had big parties.

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