FOOD
NOMADIC tribes
- collecting edible plants (berries; plant roots)
- fishing
- followed the buffalo
- hunting: deer; rabbits; ducks
SETTLED tribes
- farming: maize, pumpkins, squash; beans; potatoes
- fishing
- hunting: deer; rabbits; ducks
HOUSING
- tents: tepee; wigwam (or wickiup) – How to build a tepee?
- houses: pueblo, plankhouse, longhouse
WEAPONS and tools
- knives; bows and arrows; war clubs; spears; harpoons (to hunt fish, even whales with); tomahawks; shileds
FOLLOWING THE BUFFALO – how it was used?
- bones: carved and sharpened to make knives, arrow heads and war clubs
- skin: clothes, moccasins, tepees, waterbags
- hooves: cups
- sinew: bowstring; thread
- tongue: hairbrush
- fat: soap; cooking oil
- tail: fly swat; decoration
- hair: filling saddles
PICTURE VOCABULARY
A powwow: