APACHE
APACHE
The Apache tribe lived in the southwest part of the U.S.A all the way down to Mexico. Their land was also surrounded by rugged mountains and cacti. There were also very few trees and water.People of the Apache tribe lived in houses called wickiups. They were made of willow branches covered in sticks or leaves and grasses.
They farmed, gathered, and hunted. They cooked in a pot filled with stones and wet grass.
Apache people hunted with guns, spears and bows with arrows. They got the guns from Spainards and they made everything else by themselves. Their baskets were famous. Boys wore nothing until age ten. Men wore breechclothes and women wore animal skirts.
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Iroquois
Iroquois
The Iroquois lived around the Great Lakes in the woodlands. Their shelter was a longhouse made of their natural resources. Their clothes were vests, dresses, shirts and skirts of beaver skins. The decorations for their clothes were feathers and beads. They fished, hunted, and gathered all their food, and they prepared it on a dish made of stone called succotosh. The Iroquois had many important tools but the most important tools were spears to kill animals and stones to grind the food.
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Comanche
Comanche
The Comanche lived in Texas, Oklahoma, east New Mexico, southeast Colorado, and south Kansas. Their main inhabitation area was the Great Plains, to make it simple. They were nomads, people who never stayed in one place for very long.The Comanche tribe could take their tepees down in 5 minutes because their tepees needed to be moved places fast. They had containers in the walls of the tepees to keep food warm. The tepees are covered in buffalo skin. The tepees can fit two to three familys in them. The chiefs tepee was the largest out of all of the tepees in the tribe. They can also put tepees up in six minutes. They had only dirt for floor in the tepees. The buffalo skin made the tepees very warm.
The Comanche tribe ate buffalo as their main food and used Pemmican as a flavoring thing for food. The Pemican was made out of buffalo and grounded berries. They ate cherries and berries and wildgreens, too. They also ate different types of corn, too.
The Comanche tribe wore breechcloths and deerskins. Buffalo skin was popular. They liked to make robes out of buffalo skins. They used spears and arrows for hunting. To make the tools they mostly used wood and bronze
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Nootka
Nootka
The Nootka lived on Vancouver Island. They also lived in British Columbia's snowy mountains. The Nootka lived in long houses completely made of ceder wood. 4 to 5 families could fit in one home. Nootka were famous for whale hunting. They only ate fruit and marine animals, no vegetables or bread. The Nootka made their clothing out of tree bark. The only thing they wore was skirts. Most of the Nootka's tools were for whale hunting. They also had cages for fishing. The Nootka DOES NOT exist today, because of the settlers who moved the Nootka off the island.
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Chumash
Chumash
The Chumash tribe lives in what is now Santa Barbara, CA. They lived along the coast where the grass is green and moist. They had lots of oak trees.The Chumash lived in big, bowl-shaped houses "'aps". They also have a fire pit inside of the 'ap. The hole at the top is for the fire sparks to go away. It is covered in hollow tule strips. The Chumash were perfectly safe In their 'ap.
Their main food were acorns. They made acorn soup and porrige. They also hunted with spears to catch fish, deer, elk, ect. They gathered lots of berries and wild plants.
The Chumash wore skirts made out of animal skins. Also, the women wore grass skirts. The men wore a single cloth around their waist or wore nothing at all. The tools that they had were seashells to drink water from and they used plank canoes called tolmols.
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