Here is an essay I have been working on.

Native American Indies.

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Native American’s lived in different houses according to their lifestyle, needs, and supplies. Indian’s that traveled around a lot Where called The plains Indians, they used teepees made of leather, strings, and wood poles. Plains Indians used these tents for housing because they where easy to carry around.

Indians who intended to stay in one place built large houses called longhouses. Longhouses where used for whole tribes, they where about 20 ft wide and 150 ft long. Some Indians actually lived in marble and stone building’s almost just like our apartments today. I think that is mostly where normal apartments in modern times came from.

Men Of the tribe hunted, fished, made weapon’s, and arrows, they built homes and taught the young boys (usually their nephews and/or sons) the way of the tribe, to hunt, and build. They led them to sheds far into the woods to live alone for a year when they where about 13 to live and learn. When they came back they where called a man. Indian men sang rituals to the gods and also sang when they built. Indian women sang to, of course. But they sang differently, they sang to children and sang when they cooked, also they sewed clothes, blankets, they skinned deer’s, and built fires and pits to cook. The women taught girls to do the same, when boys where very young, they sometimes helped their mothers too. Indians who stayed place to place month’s at a time used wigwams, made from poles, leather and wood. Easy to build and small, the Indies where not burdened building them 2 to 3 times a year.

Indians used canoes to travel and trade across water, they where built from logs and could carry 50 paddlers’, the canoes size ranged from 10 to 25 ft. Larger canoes had crazy amounts of work attached to them, though all the bits and pieces were readily available from the environment. The task involved gathering the bark and root lashings, carving all the manboards and laminating the prowpieces, bending and lashing the gunwales and inserting the hand-carved thwarts, stitching up the seams and gores, ripping and laying the cedar planking, bending and inserting 30 or more ribs, and caulking the seams and holes with pine gum, and finally decorating by etching or painting the bark. Much more than a casual day's work!

The Tomahawk is like hatchet generally used by Native North Americans Pemmican

Dried meat was pounded with a rock until it became powder. Then it was mixed with melted fat and berries. The meat was stored in a parfleche. Pemmican would last for months.

Soup or Stew

Meat was cooked in a sac instead of a cooking pot. The bag was actually the stomach of a bison. The sac was hung on sticks. Red-hot stones were scooped from the campfire and dropped into the sac. The water in the sac hissed, sizzled and boiled. This is how buffalo soup or stew was made. Chunks of meat were cooked with vegetables like the wild turnip.

Grease was collected form bones and animal fat. It was used for frying bannock. Bannock was a type of bread that was cooked over the fire.

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