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The people of the Eastern Woodlands made many homes including wig-wams and tepees. They also made longhouses, which are like modern apartments today. They housed 3-5 families!

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Some tools and weapons the Eastern Woodlands people used was the spinning stick. They used this when they needed to make a fire.  Another tool they used were snares and traps to catch animals like  a rabbit or squirrel. They used stone knives to peel the bark off trees.

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Food

The Algonquian people of the Eastern Woodlands were hunter-gatherers, meaning they relied on collecting edible plants and hunting wild animals as their main source of food.

Tobacco

Corn

Farming

They were too far north to rely solely on horticulture; however, some groups did farm.

The Mi'kmaq's grew tobacco.

Ottawa, Abenaki, and Algonquin grew corn, beans, and squash.

Hunting

The people of the Eastern Woodlands became very skilled hunters and fishermen because they lived in forested areas and were usually close to water.

During the winter, when the lakes were frozen over, were spent hunting larger game and trapping smaller animals.

In the summer months, they would focus a lot of their time on fishing. They would hunt too.

In the fall and winter, most of the families moved, following the animals they needed to hunt. Because there was a lot of snowfall in the area, the hunters would use snowshoes as a way of traveling.

The most important animal to the Eastern Woodlands Hunters was the white-tailed deer. White-tailed deer were hunted for their meat, but the skins were also dried and used in making their houses and clothing.

They also hunted:

raccoon

bear

squirrel

beaver

moose

seal

caribou

whale

The types of animals that they hunted depended on the region where they were living and what wildlife was available to them. For example, the coastal people were able to hunt for seals and whales, while the people in the northern regions were unable to do so, but they could hunt for caribou and moose.

Moose Hunt in winter

Fishing in Canoes

Preparing the Meat

Algonquin family tends to the fire

There were two ways to prepare the meat.

The first way was to cook it, by either roasting or boiling it over a fire, and then eat it right away.

The second method was to smoke-dry the meat, as a way to preserve it, and then save it to eat at a future time when they were short on fresh meat.

Fishing

Spear fishing in a lake

They spent a lot of time fishing, particularly in the St. Lawrence area, the Great Lakes and along the Atlantic coast.

So they often put their villages close to good fishing grounds.

The inland people fished in rivers and lakes and their diet included a lot of freshwater fish.

The coastal people, like the Mi'maqs, took advantage of the ocean and caught a lot of eels, mulloscs, and crustaceans, in addition to eating a lot of saltwater fish, like cod, smelt, and salmon.

Roles of Men and Women

Men hunting deer in camouflage

In Eastern Woodlands society it was solely the man's responsibility to hunt and fish.

The women were in charge of farming (if they did any), and gathering various wild berries, nuts, tubers and other plants to eat from nearby forests.

Around the Great Lakes region in Ontario, the women also harvested wild rice in the fall and maple sap in the spring to make maple sugar.

Along the coastal region, it was the woman's responsibility to collect shellfish and mussels from the ocean. They would then have clambakes, where they ate clams, oysters, lobsters, mussels, and other shellfish wrapped in seaweed and cooked over a fire pit.

Tools

Ojibwa deadfall

Most tools that the Eastern Woodlands Hunters used were made of wood or bark.

For hunting larger animals they used bows and arrows and lances, and for smaller animals they used traps, snares, and deadfalls.

For fishing, they used hooks, weirs, leisters, and nets, all of which they made themselves from forest material.

Cooking was done in containers made of wood and bark, mainly from birch trees.

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The Eastern Woodland Hunters - Food / Hunting / Tools

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Food The Algonquian people of the Eastern Woodlands were hunter-gatherers, meaning they relied on collecting edible plants and hunting wild animals as their main source of food. Tobacco Corn Farming They were too far north to rely solely on horticulture; however, some groups did farm. The Mi'kmaq's grew tobacco.

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These people have many different traditions and beliefs. When someone of their tribe is sick, or injured, they call on the spirits to help heal them. They also believe that every man or woman is connected to nature. That nature speaks to them. Girls couldn't hunt because they believed that girls were better workers. Only boys could hunt. These people believed many different things.

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The people of the Eastern Woodlands use many things from the environment. Some include wild rice and berries, and especially the forests. The trees in the forest provide tools, weapons, baskets, and even clothes.