The Creeks

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The Creeks

• By Kayla, Tiffany, Krystina, Suzy , and Chris

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Where the Creek Lived

• The lived in Georgia and Alabama.
• They had a winter house and a summer house.
• The summer house had no walls just a round roof.
• Sometimes there were rivers running between the
  houses.

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Homes

• Every southeast village had a large place where
  it opens where people got together for games,
  meetings and feasts.
• The Great House was were they had their meetings,
  celebration, and other events.
• After the settlers, they built their houses with
  a frame that was made out of bent poles.
• The houses also had a wall that was made out of
  brown logs to keep them safe.

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Games

• Games were important to the Creeks.
• They played stick-ball, but they called it the
  Little Brother of War.
• The ball was made of animal hair rolled up
  tightly and wrapped in deerskin.
• The sticks were used to toss the ball between
  players until they got close enough to fling the
  ball through the goal post.

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Games

• Girls played with dolls.
• They pretended the dolls were their babies.

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Clothing

• Children didnt were clothes until they were 12
  or 13 years old.
• The creek made moccasins out of deerskin and put
  beads on it.
• They put tattoos on their face and body.
• The tattoos should how bravely they fought in war
  and their status in the tribe.

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Food

• The Creeks dried fruits for winter and ate it
  when the food was scare.
• Women and children gathered nuts, berries, roots,
  and herbs.
• Men hunted for deer and buffalo.
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Food

• Women raise beans, pumpkin, squash and corn
• The Creeks often hid themselves in buffalo skin
  to sneak up on their prey.

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The Trail of Tears

• On the Trail of Tears about 60,000 Southeastern
  were sent to the west.
• About 17,000 people got kicked out of their land.
• The heat and the disease killed many people.

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The Trail of Tears

• John Ross the leaders wife died along The Trail
  of Tears.
• By late March in 1839, the last Cherokee Indians
  reached Oklahoma.

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References

• The Creek Indians By Ellen Scordato
• Creek By Elizabeth Hahn