Eastern Woodland Indians

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Eastern Woodland Indians

• By Baxter, Brooke, Dante, James, Kiara

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Food They Ate

• Woodland Indians eat fish and fruit.
• They fish for bass and trout.
• They also hunted for beaver, bear, otter, and
  moose.
• Woodlands added sap to their foods to make them
  sweeter.
• They used sap to make syrup and candy.

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War With The Woodlands

• Some people in the Iroquois tribe were cannibals
  and they would eat their enemies.
• The Peacemaker decided to make a white pine tree
  the new symbol for the Iroquois tribe.
• They would sit under the tree and solve their
  problems.

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Trading with the Woodlands

• European people traded with the Woodland Indians
  for beaver fur that was popular in Europe.
• They gave the Woodlands metal axes, guns, and
  tools.
• Seventy years after the seventeenth century
  beaver and the other animals they were killing
  were almost extinct.

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The Tree of Peace

• The Tree of Peace is an evergreen tree.
• The trunk represents the power of the unity and
  nation.
• The roots point to North, South, East, and West.
• Weapons are buried under the ground to promise
  not to make war.

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What They Live In

• They live in Wigwams and Longhouses.

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Other Tribes of the Woodland Indians

• Other tribes from the Woodland Indians Mohawks,
  Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayuga's, Seneca's, Huron's,
  and the Tuscarora's.

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Fast Facts on Woodland Indians

• Both Longhouses and Wigwams were made of young
  sticks.
• Up to twelve families could live in a longhouse.