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Native Americans for Kids: Chickasaw Tribe

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Kids learn about Native American Indian Chickasaw Tribe. Their history, language, clothing, food, homes, fun facts, and government.

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Mohican Tribe: Facts, Clothes, Food and History ***

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Check out this site for interesting facts about the Mohican tribe. Food, clothing, homes, weapons and culture of the Mohican people. Interesting facts about the Mohican nation of the Northeast woodland group.

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Facts for Kids: Wampanoag Indians (Massachusett Indians, Naticks, Nantuckets, Wampanoags)

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Information about the Wampanoag Indian tribe of Massachusetts for students and teachers. Lesson plan covers Wampanoag clothing, houses, villages, crafts, food, tools, and legends.

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Powhatan was the leader of the Powhatan tribe. Powhatan was the leader during the Jamestown Colonization when the English settled in Jamestown in 1607. Powhatan was friendly with the English at the beginning. He traded with them. Powhatan usually sent his daughter Pocahontas to give them corn/maize. But later, Powhatan and his tribe looked at the settlers as invaders. After that, Powhatan did not allow the trading with the English settlers. From 1610-1612, it was known as the Starving Time. His leadership was saved by his brother Opchanacanough.

Images for kids

The Coronation of Powhatan, oil on canvas, John Gadsby Chapman, 1835

Red line shows boundary between the Virginia Colony and Tributary Indian tribes, as established by the Treaty of 1646. Red dot on river shows Jamestown, capital of Virginia Colony.

John Smith's map of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries (1624 copy). The map details the location of numerous villages within the Powhatan Confederacy.

Powhatan in a longhouse atWerowocomoco (detail of John Smith map, 1612)

'John Smith taking the King of Pamunkey prisoner', a fanciful image of Opechancanough from Smith's General History of Virginia (1624). The image of Opechancanough is based on a 1585 painting of another native warrior by John White[1]

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Powhatan was the leader of the Powhatan tribe. Powhatan was the leader during the Jamestown Colonization when the English settled in Jamestown in 1607. Powhatan was friendly with the English at the beginning. He traded with them. Powhatan usually sent his daughter Pocahontas to give them corn/maize.

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Native American Indian Facts

Shoshone Warrior

Introduction
The Shoshone Indians were a small Native American tribe, of about 8,000 members, that occupied land both east and west of the Rocky Mountains and can be classified as Great Basin American Indians. These Native Americans were nomadic people who traveled throughout the Snake River area in Idaho, as well as parts of California, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Montana. They were called the "snake Indians" and sometimes they were called by the derogatory name "diggers" because they needed to dig for food such as roots from the ground. Below we have listed many interesting Shoshone Tribe facts.

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General Facts about the Shoshone Indians

Famous Shoshone People include Chief Little Soldier, Chief Pocatello, Chief Bear Hunter, Chief Washakie, and the most famous of the Shoshone, Sacagawea.

They relied on hunting and gathering for their food sources. Shoshone people hunted animals such as buffalo, antelope, marmot, beaver, deer, elk, and fox. To preserve the meat for winter, they would sun-dry it and store it for eating, making clothing, and building shelters. They also ate many types of berries and nuts

They are not known for their jewelry, but Shoshone artists are famous for their beautiful beadwork, woven baskets, art and paintings, including those on tanned hides.

The northwestern Shoshone were mistaken for Ute Indians when white settlers arrived in Utah for the first time. Similar to the Ute, they were nomadic; as the seasons changed they traveled in small family units to where the most abundant resources were located.

When the Shoshone were ordered out of their homeland during the Trail of Tears, The Fort Hall Indian Reservation, in Idaho, would become their new home.

Lewis and Clark and their expedition party, the Corps, were the first white men that the Shoshone had ever come into contact with. Lewis and Clark were able to communicate through sign language and some basic terms, with the help of Sacagawea, that they meant no harm and had come in peace.

Because they were nomadic they had limited belongings and many temporary shelters. They made many enemies because they were known to steal horses from tribes in other regions such as the Crow and Pocatello tribes.

They participated in several ceremonial dances: the sun dance, a religious festival that took place in the summer and the Buffalo Dance where women played the part of buffalos mostly for entertainment.

Shoshone Tribe Clothing Facts

The Shoshone people wore different clothing for each season. Clothing in the summer was minimal with men wearing a simple loincloth, and women wearing a basic apron. When they needed to keep warmer during the winter months, they wore rabbit robes and pants or other type of fur.

They used beads, shells, animal bones and teeth, and quills to decorate clothes made from animal hide.

Men and women both wore moccasins made of animal hide and insulated with bark for warmth.

Head pieces made of animal hide were decorated with different types of feathers.

The Shoshone Ice Caves

This cave is actually a one thousand foot long lava tube.

The ice in the cave reaches a depth of thirty feet in some spots.

A tall tale says that there is an Indian Ice princess buried inside the cave.

In addition to a museum full of Indian artifacts, you'll also find a replica of Chief Washakie, leader to the Eastern Shoshone Indians, famous for his friendship and civility to white men.

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The Shoshone Tribe is a small tribe of Native American Indians living in parts of California, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Montana. Here we provide interesting information and facts about these people.

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Shawnee Native American Indian

This article contains interesting facts, pictures and information about the life of the Shawnee Native American Indian Tribe of the Great Plains.

The Shawnee Tribe
Summary and Definition: The Shawnee tribe were a nomadic tribe of hunters and farmers who migrated across many areas in the Northeast and Southeast. Many of the Shawnee adopted European style clothes and favored cloth turbans or bandana style head wear. The names of the most famous chiefs of the Shawnee tribe included Chief Cornstalk, Tecumseh (1768 - 1813) and Chief Blue Jacket (c1743 - c1810).

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Facts about the Shawnee Native Indian Tribe
This article contains fast, fun facts and interesting information about the Shawnee Native American Indian tribe. Find answers to questions like where did the Shawnee tribe live, what clothes did they wear, what did they eat and who were the names of their most famous leaders? Discover what happened to the Shawnee tribe with facts about their wars and history.

Map showing the Tennessee homelands
of the Shawnee Tribe

Where did the Shawnee tribe live?
The Shawnee tribe originated in the Tennessee region around the Cumberland River but they migrated to many other parts of America. The Shawnee Home Tribal Territories were Tennessee, South Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

The Shawnee tribe adopted the lifestyles that were best suited to the climate, geography and natural resources of the different regions that they lived in. Due to the semi-nomadic life of the Shawnee they came into contact with the tribes of various Native Indian cultures. The Shawnee tribal groups included the Northeast and Southeast Native Indian and even the Plains cultures. Following the American Civil War, many Shawnee in Kansas were blended into the Cherokee Nation and were known as Cherokee Shawnee.

What did the Shawnee tribe live in?
Many of the nomadic Shawnee tribe lived in Wigwams, aka wetus or wikkums, which are also known as birchbark houses. This type of temporary shelter was used by Algonquian speaking Native Indian tribes who lived in the woodland regions.

Shawnee tribe - Wigwams
Wigwams, or wetus, are small cone-shaped houses with an arched roof made of wooden frames that are covered with woven mats and sheets of birchbark which are held in place by ropes or strips of wood. Some Shawnee wigwams were covered with buffalo hides if this was a major resource in the area Wigwams were usually about 8-10 feet tall and 10 - 15 feet wide at the base.

What language did the Shawnee tribe speak?
The Shawnee tribe spoke in the Algonquian language.

What food did the Shawnee tribe eat?
The food that the Shawnee tribe ate depended on the resources that were available to them in the area they lived in

The food of the Shawnee people who inhabited the Great Plains region was predominantly buffalo but also they also hunted deer, bear and wild turkey. Their diet was supplemented with roots and wild fruit and vegetables

The food of the Shawnee Woodland people were fish and small game including squirrel, deer, raccoon, bear and beaver. Corn (maize), pumpkin, squash and beans were also available

The food of the people who inhabited the Southeast included meat from animals such as rabbits, wild hogs, turkeys, eagles, opossums, raccoons and deer. Many farmed crops of corn (maize), beans, dried fruit, pumpkins and nuts

What weapons did the Shawnee use?
The weapons used by the Shawnee tribe included bows and arrows, a variety of different clubs, hatchet axes, spears, lances and knives. The rifle was added to their weapons with the advent of the white settlers.

What clothes did the Shawnee tribe wear?
The clothes worn by the Shawnee tribe were dictated by the climate. In warm climates they wore breechcloths in the summer and in cold climates they wore fringed tunics or shirts and leggings. Warm robes or cloaks were also worn to protect against the cold and the rain. The Shawnee tribe also adopted the types of clothes worn by the white settlers and that were available through trade. Shawnee men wore cloth shirts made of cotton or calico, and European style trousers or pants. Their jackets were often in the style of frock coats. Cloth turbans or a type of bandana were a popular form of headwear. Their turbans were made of a woolen shawl, sometimes covered with a piece of calico or even silk. The turbans were occasionally encircled by a band of metal (tin or siver) and adorned by feathers.

Who were the most famous leaders and chiefs of the Shawnee tribe?
The most famous leaders and chiefs of the Shawnee tribe included Chief Cornstalk, Tecumseh (1768 - 1813) and Chief Chief Blue Jacket (c1743 - c1810).

Shawnee History Timeline: What happened to the Shawnee tribe?
The history of the Shawnee people dates back to the ancient Adena culture. The following history timeline details facts, dates and famous landmarks and battles fought by the Nation. The Shawnee timeline explains what happened to the people of their tribe.
Shawnee History Timeline

1000: Woodland Period including the Adena and Hopewell cultures established along rivers in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States which included trade exchange systems

1677: French trader Claude-Charles Le Roy Bacqueville de la Potherie made the first white contact and established good relations with the tribe

1670's: The Shawnee trade extensively with the French

1689: The French and Indian Wars (1689-1763) erupted between France and Great Britain and their respective Indian allies. The Shawnee tribe, led by Chief Cornstalk, sided with the French

1763: Shawnees joined the Ottawa and other tribes in Pontiac's Rebellion against the British

1778: Daniel Boone was captured by the tribe and warned to leave "Kentucky", he managed to escape

1774: The tribe were defeated in Lord Dunmore's War along the Ohio River

1774: The Americans defeated the Shawnee in the Battle of Point Pleasant (October 6, 1774) and Chief Beanstalk was killed. Blue Jacket emerged as a strong Shawnee leader

1775: The American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783). The Shawnees fought with the British against the American forces

1783: The 1783 Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolutionary War the British abandoned their native allies and ceded the land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River to the United States (the Northwest Territory)

1782: The Shawnee joined by the Western Confederacy of tribes including the Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Mingo. Their objective was to keep the Ohio River as a boundary between Indian lands and the United States and to remove settlers from Kentucky and Ohio

1785: The Northwest Indian War (1785-1795) aka as Little Turtle's war erupted

1790: "Harmar's defeat" - General Josiah Harmar was defeated in his attempts to subdue Native Indians in the Northwest Territory

1791: Battle of the Wabash on November 4, 1791. American Indians were led by Little Turtle and Blue Jacket won a major Native Indian victory against Americans led by General Arthur St. Clair.

1794: Battle of Fallen Timbers on August 20, 1794. Major General Anthony Wayne defeated Blue Jacket and the Native Indians

1795: The Treaty of Greenville was signed on August 3, 1795 following the Battle of Fallen Timbers in which the Native Indians were forced to cede much of present-day Ohio to the United States

1795: The Treaty of Greenville was made on August 3, 1795 that ended the Northwest Indian War

1805: The Treaty of Fort Industry was signed on July 4, 1805 in which Blue Jacket and Tecumseh relinquished even more of Ohio

1810: The Death of Blue Jacket. Chief Tecumseh continued the Shawnee fight during Tecumseh's War in a final attempt to reclaim Shawnee lands in the Ohio Country.

1811: Tecumseh's War (1811-1813): The Battle of Tippecanoe (1811), the Battle of Fallen Timbers, the War of 1812 and the Battle of the Thames in which Tecumseh was killed

1815: Shawnee are moved into Arkansas and in 1820 moved to Texas

1830: The Indian Removal Act was passed calling for the relocation of all tribes to "Indian Territory" west of the Mississippi River.

1831: August 8, Treaty at Wapaghkonnetta and Hog creek in Ohio. Land ceded and removed to land west of Missouri

1832: The Treaty of 1832 called for the removal of all Shawnee to the west

1832: Wapakoneta Shawnee leave Ohio and removed west of the Missouri River, into Kansas

1833: Hog Creek Shawnee removed to Kansas

1861-65: supported the Union during the Civil War
1867: Shawnee located on three reservations in Indian Territory. The Absentee Shawnee from Texas settled with the Potawatomi, the Kansas Shawnee moved to the Cherokee reservation. Other tribe members settled in Ottawa County, Oklahoma

the The Story of Shawnee
For additional facts and information refer to the legend and the Story of Tecumseh and Wars with the Western Indians.

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History >>Native Americans for Kids

Who were the Iroquois?

The Iroquois were a League or Confederacy of Native American nations in the Northeastern part of America. Originally they were formed by five nations: the Cayuga, Onondaga, Mohawk, Seneca, and Oneida. Later, in the 1700s, the Tuscarora joined.

Iroquois 6 Nations Map by R. A. Nonenmacher

The French named them the Iroquois, but they called themselves the Haudenosaunee which means People of the Longhouse. The British called them the Five Nations.

How was the Iroquois League governed?

The Iroquois had a type of representative government. Each nation in the Iroquois League had its own elected officials called chiefs. These chiefs would attend the Iroquois council where major decisions were made regarding the Five Nations. Each nation also had its own leaders to make local decisions.

What type of homes did they live in?

The Iroquois lived in longhouses. These were long rectangular buildings made with wood frames and covered with bark. They were sometimes over 100 feet long. They didn't have any windows, just a door at each end and holes in the roof to let smoke from cooking fires out. Many families would live in a single long house. Each family would have its own compartment that could be separated from the others for privacy using a partition made of bark or animal skin.

Iroquois Longhouse by Wilbur F. Gordy

Longhouses were part of a larger village. A village would have several longhouses which would often be surrounded by a fence called a palisade. Outside of the palisade would be the fields where the Iroquois would farm crops.

What did the Iroquois eat?

The Iroquois ate a variety of foods. They grew crops such as corn, beans, and squash. These three main crops were called the "Three Sisters" and were usually grown together. Women generally farmed the fields and cooked the meals. They had a number of ways to prepare corn and the other vegetables they grew.

The men hunted wild game including deer, rabbit, turkey, bear, and beaver. Some meat was eaten fresh and some was dried and stored for later. Hunting animals was not only important for meat, but for other parts of the animal as well. The Iroquois used the skin for making clothing and blankets, the bones for tools, and the tendons for sewing.

What did they wear?

Iroquois clothing was made from tanned deerskin. The men wore leggings and long breechcloths while the women wore long skirts. Both men and women wore deerskin shirts or blouses and soft shoes made of leather called moccasins.

Did they have Mohawk hair styles?

Although the Mohawk hairstyle gets its name from the Mohawk Nation, Mohawk warriors actually wore a different hairstyle. They typically had a square of hair on the back crown of their head with three short braids of hair. Girls would wear two braids in their hair until they got married, then they would have a single braid.

Flag of the Iroquois Confederacy by Himasaram

Interesting Facts about the Iroquois

Even though longhouses were more permanent structures, the village would move every 10 years or so to find fresh land and hunting grounds.

Up to 60 people would live in a single longhouse.

As long as there was food, no one ever went hungry in a village as food was freely shared.

There was a trail that connected the Five Nations called the Iroquois Trail.

The Iroquois Great Council still meets today.

The women had a large role in social government and even chose the representatives that went to meet at the Great Council.

Lacrosse was first played and invented by the Iroquois Indians. They have several different names for the game including Teh hon tsi kwaks eks, Guh jee gwah ai, and Ga lahs.

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Kids learn about Native American Indian tribe the Iroquois from the Northeast of the United States.

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Facts for Kids: Cherokee Indians (Cherokees)

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Information about the Cherokee Indians for students and teachers. Covers Cherokee tribes in Oklahoma and North Carolina,
with facts about Cherokee Indian food, clothing, houses, villages, art and crafts, weapons and tools, legends, and customs of the Cherokee people.

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South Eastern Native American Tribes Power Point

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1. What kind of home did the East and Southeast Indians used? Draw a picture. (Hint:Scroll Down)