The Algonquinof the Northeast Woodlands

The Northeast Woodlands …………………………………………………..……. Page 2Algonquin Food …………………………………………………………………………. Page 3Algonquin Clothes ……………………………………………………………………… Page 4Algonquin Homes ………………………………………………………………………. Page 5Algonquin Travel ………………………………………………………………………… Page 6Glossary …………………………………………………………………………………….. Page 7

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The Northeast Woodlands The Northeast woodlands is a quickly changing place. There are four seasons with wide temperature ranges. It can get below zero degrees during the winter, and above one hundred degrees in the summer. A large mountain range called the Madison Boulder and dropped them along the way. One of the Native AmericanTribes that had to struggle with these hardships were the Algonquins.

This is the Algonquin Environment. 2

Algonquin Food Since there were so many lakes and rivers, Algonquin usually had a camp near Water so they could fish and ice fish. In the spring the women and childrenpicked berries. They also planted crops such as corn, apples, potatoes, andSquash. The men hunted. The hunted moose, deer and black bear. They alsoHunted and ate beaver and water birds. When they hunted moose they called it by blowing through a horn that imitated a mating call.

This is what the Algonquins eat.3

Algonquin Clothes The Algonquin tribe mixed bear fat and soot into their hair to make it black and shiny. They believed that nice looking shoes showed respect to the earthand bad shoe condition protects children from evil spirits. Men wore breechclothIn the summer and leather robes in the winter. Women wore wraparound dresses.Children wore nothing in the summer until they were ten. Everyone wore moccasins.They made their clothes out of animal skins. They sewed their clothes with thread made from tough animal flesh.

This is what the Algonquins wore 4

Algonquin Homes

Algonquin native Americans built and lived in wigwams. The wigwams were made with birch bark and saplings. They used the saplings to make a frame then put the birch bark on. Skins were used for household items and kids played with dolls and other wooden Toys. They made sheets and baskets that were also made of birch bark. Their cradle boards were made out of birch bark too.

This is an Algonquin home.5

Algonquin Travel The Algonquin traveled many different ways. They traveled by snowshoe and toboggan During the winter, and built canoes to travel the waterways with during the summer. They made these canoes by first making a frame, then putting inside out birch bark on the frame. They used the canoes to fish as well. The toboggans carried their belongings while they walked ahead on snowshoes and pulled it behind them.

This is an Algonquin canoe.

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GlossaryCanoe: A narrow boat that you move through the water by paddling.

Crop: A plant grown in large amounts, usually for food.

Moccasin: A soft shoe or slipper without a heel. Moccasins originally were worn by American Indians.

Temperature: The degree of heat or cold in something usually measured by a thermometer.

Wigwam: A hut made of poles and covered with bark or hides. Some American Indian tribe chiefly in the eastern United statesonce lived in wigwams.

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