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Eastern woodlands food By:Drew

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an Eastern Woodlands Indian. You would not go to a store like you can today they had to use bow and arrows to get their food. They had to survive in the wild and had to be hard workers too.

Nuts field

People of the Eastern Woodlands were hunters, gatherers, relied on collecting edible plants, nuts, and meat as their main food and resources. The Eastern woodlands people got their food four ways. They farmed, hunted, set traps and snares, and gathered edible plants, nuts, and clams.

Corn Beans Squash Field

Some of the Eastern Woodlands peoples of tribes ate the corn, beans, and squash. The women were relied on to harvest the corn, beans, and squash every spring. And if the women had a child they would carry them on their back and this is helpful because it was to dangerous for the child to go on the father's back because it would make them slower if their was an assassination and because they went bears and other dangerous animals.

The Eastern Woodlands people hunted were skilled hunters, so they would hunt bear, raccoons, squirrel, beaver, moose, seal, caribou, and whale. In the winter the Eastern Woodlands people would set traps and snares for small animals and hunted or fished. The Eastern woodlands people fished, hunted, and farmed.And the chief of the tribe would assigned the peoples of the tribe their jobs.

Bear Deer Moose

The Eastern Woodlands people prepared their meat two ways, they roasted it and eat it right away or, boiled it over a fire and saved it in till they needed it.

Salmon Crocodile

Most of the Eastern Woodlands tribes were really close to a pond, lake, stream, or river. So they fished for things like salmon, cod, and smelt. Some tribes were such good fishes that they hunted crocodiles.

Rabbit

The men had different jobs then the women would have. The women farmed, gathered nuts, berries, tubers, maple sap, clams, oyster, lobster, or mussels if their chief chose that job for them. While the men, hunted with bow and arrows for the bigger animals like deer, fished, or set traps and snares for the smaller animals like rabbit. Whatever the chief picked for them to do the did it no matter what they thought you thought you were going to be.

Deer

Rabbit

So do you think you survive in the wild, like the Eastern Woodlands Indians. It was a hard life for the Eastern Woodlands peoples but they managed to survive any way.

Sources:

firstpeoplesofcanada.com/fp_groups/fp_wh3.html

http://whitewolve.com/native_americans/indexblok.plains.com

http://www.indians.org/articles/iroquois-indians.html

Native Americans: People of the Forest

Illinois Indians

http://www.indians.org/articles/eastern-woodland-indians.html

http://www.warpaths2peacepipes.com/native-american-indians/woodland-indians.htm

United States History

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