Food:
Iroquois:
Agriculture came late to the Iroquois of the Eastern Woodlands resulting in often travels around the region seeking for food. Learning how to grow corn from their neighbors to the south, the Iroquois also learned how to grow beans, squash and pumpkins. They also hunted, fished, and gathered wild berries.
Algonquian:
In winter, the Algonquian would form small groups, dispersing into the woods to hunt for moose, deer, bear. In larger camps where they fished, the Algonquian came together in the spring and summer, gathering wild rice, berries, and tapped maple trees for their syrup which was boiled down into sugar. Those living near the Huron developed some agriculture or traded with the Huron for their agricultural products.
Agriculture came late to the Iroquois of the Eastern Woodlands resulting in often travels around the region seeking for food. Learning how to grow corn from their neighbors to the south, the Iroquois also learned how to grow beans, squash and pumpkins. They also hunted, fished, and gathered wild berries.
Algonquian:
In winter, the Algonquian would form small groups, dispersing into the woods to hunt for moose, deer, bear. In larger camps where they fished, the Algonquian came together in the spring and summer, gathering wild rice, berries, and tapped maple trees for their syrup which was boiled down into sugar. Those living near the Huron developed some agriculture or traded with the Huron for their agricultural products.
Dwellings:
Iroquois:
Heavily guarded by palisades of logs, the Iroquois built large towns that were surrounded by large fields of maze, beans, squash, and sunflowers. Containing several rows of longhouses, towns usually had as many as fifty in a row. Each longhouse contained several families related to each other through the female line.
Heavily guarded by palisades of logs, the Iroquois built large towns that were surrounded by large fields of maze, beans, squash, and sunflowers. Containing several rows of longhouses, towns usually had as many as fifty in a row. Each longhouse contained several families related to each other through the female line.
Algonquian:
The Ojibwa, who were Algonquian, resided in dome-shaped wigwams constructed by tying saplings together at the top and covering them with sheets of bark or rushes.
In summer, the Ojibwa's source of transportation was by birch bark canoes, sealing the seams with spruce or pine gum. When winter came, they used snowshoes and toboggans to travel.
The Ojibwa, who were Algonquian, resided in dome-shaped wigwams constructed by tying saplings together at the top and covering them with sheets of bark or rushes.
In summer, the Ojibwa's source of transportation was by birch bark canoes, sealing the seams with spruce or pine gum. When winter came, they used snowshoes and toboggans to travel.