AMERICAN INDIAN GROUPS

WOODLAND PEOPLE

• Lived in villages/earthen mounds.
• Grew crops such as: bottle gourds, squash,and corn.
• Stayed close to home to tend their crops, and used pottery to store food.
• They traded goods with tribes along the Ohio River and to the north and southern tribes of the Gulf of Mexico.
• Hunters traveled in seasons to hunt for meat and used bows and arrows.

CATAWBA PEOPLE

• Once the most powerful southeastern tribe
• Called the people of the river
• Lived in bark covered houses
• Public gatherings in earthen temples
• Survived by farming and fishing

YAMASEE PEOPLE

• They were farmers and fierce warriors and fishermen
• Houses covered in palmetto leaves
• Lived near uplands and river bottoms
• They hunted deer,bears,raccoons,etc.
• They grew corn,peas,cherries,etc.

MISSISSIPPIAN PEOPLE

• Often lived near rivers or other water sources due to farming.
• Only used shelter during dangerous weather conditions spent most of their life outside
• Lived most of their lives from only eating plants and other vegetation
• Made houses constructed of wood,Mud and thatch
• They spent most of their life outside

PALEO PEOPLE

• Entered a new stage of development called Paleo period, durning these times the climate was cold.
• They had an vantage of big stone spear point.Discovered the ancient spear points near Clovis.
• Hunted white tail deer.
• Toward the end of they're period they started growing crops,making pottery and trading.
• They strengthened the clay with plant fibers