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The Pueblo Indians were very peaceful. They made houses of sun bricks. Like most North American Indians, they were religious. The children were taught to be gentle and polite.
The Navajos lived in the Southwest. Their land stretched across parts of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. Navajo people take pride in their handmade arts and crafts because it is beautiful.
The Pueblo Indians were peaceful.They were deeply religious.Their members took turns running their government..
The Iroquois Indians had to hunt for their food. They had special spoons made out of rock. Deer hunting was an important task for all Iroquois Indians.
Sequoyah was a Cherokee Indian. He saw the settlers reading and writing. He decided to make an alphabet for his nation. So that they could read and write. The Cherokee people where Woodland Indians. They lived in peace.
The Iroquois Indians settled in New York. The Iroquois Indians included other tribes: the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onandagas, the Cayugas, the Senecas and the Tuscaroras. Each town had long houses covered with bark. The Iroquois Indians grew mostly corn plus pumpkins, beans, tobacco, apples, and peaches.
The Seminole Indians lived in the Southeast region, mostly in Florida. The Indians lived in houses they called chickees. The chickees were open on all four sides except the top. The reason why they had nothing covering the sides was to let the cool breezes flow through. They had almost one chickee for everything.
The Micmac Indian Tribe lived in the North Eastern part of North America, more specifically, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia,Canada. The Micmacs used wigwams for their houses. Ceremonies would take place in wigwams.
The Cherokee Indians originally came from Georgia. When the white men came they moved west. The Cherokee tribe believed that the land had its own spirit.
The Wampanoag people lived in a building known as the wetu. The wetu was made of sapling poles pounded into the earth. The wetu has a smoke hole but often the children preferred to sleep outside to stop their eyes from burning because of the smoke that filled the wetu. Did you know that Wampanoag means "Eastern people?'
The Pueblo Indians are from the Southwest. Their houses were made out of mud and adobe. They were multistoried. One of their ceremonies was the Rain Dance. It was to ask the spirits for continued protection.
The Aleut Indians live in Alaska. Aleut people have their own language and culture.
The Comanche tribe was a tribe from the Plains. They lived in teepees in the states of Texas and Oklahoma. The Comanches lives were very hard because they were always hunting buffalo. They had to move from place to place.
Nez Perce Indians are famous for their bows and arrows. In fact they invented them! One of their best types of bows are Bighorn Sheep bows.
The Micmac Tribe is a tribe from Canada. The Micmac tribe had a special religion. They always told stories when they all got together. The stories they would tell would be about the Great Spirit Creator. They would say that the Great Spirit Creator would come and help them. They would always dance around the fire and talk about the Great Spirit Creator.
The Apaches were skilled Native Americans when it came to housing. The Apaches would make their houses from buffalo hide. First, the men would go out and kill the buffalo, then the women would wash it and let it dry in the sun. While it dried, the women would gather long sticks to make the outline of a tepee or wickiup.
Blackfoot Indians of North America lived in many parts of Montana and neighboring Canadian provinces. They believed that magic powers were in stones, bones, pipes and other objects. Blackfoot Indians hunted buffalo on foot until about 1730, when horses were introduced.
Children made their own little tipi. They made their housing out of buffalo skin. So when they needed to go somewhere else they just took the buffalo skin off and set up the sticks and put the skin on top of the buffalo skin.
The Navajo Indians raised sheeps for wool, which the woman wove into rugs and brilliant geometric designs. The Navajo wove wool on looms outside their hogans.The Mexicans taught the Navajo how to make silver jewelry.
The Inuit are most commonly known as Eskimos. Some Inuits live in igloos or tents. They believe that everything has a spirit. The word igloo means "a type of dwelling". The Inuits keep their sea hunting and land hunting separate. They use different tools for each type of hunt.
Last revised: 2/3/98