THE POWHATAN

DAILY LIFE

• Men hunted and fished
• Women planted and harvested crops
• Children helped their parents either hunt or plant. Young girls were also taught to make items for trade
• Elders weeded and safeguarded the crops

HOUSING

• Lived in small round houses called wigwams
• Made from bent saplings covered in long strips of bark or mats woven from rushes,a river plant
• Six to twenty people lived in these houses

FOOD

• They grew corn,beans, and squash
• Hunted for deer, turkey, and fish

CLOTHING

• Women wore knee length fringed skirts made out of deerskin and wore moccasins
• Men wore a breechcloth made of deerskin and wore moccasins as well

SPIRITUAL BELIEFS

• Worshipped Ahone who is the great creator
• Okeus is the god associated with war and offerings were given more often to him

LOCATION

• Located in Virginia to this day
• They lived in and near warm temperate forests

EXTRA

• Powhatan means "waterfall" in the Algonquin language and is originally the name of chief wahunsonacock's hometown

EXTRA

• Chief Powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas was the famed Indian that saved John Smith's life