Powhatan Tribe

Region

• The Powhatan live in the Eastern Woodlands.
• They traded with James town Virgina.

Houses

• Powhatan live in yehkins which were randomly scattered
• among shade trees and fields.some yehkins were round or oblong.

Living Arrangements

• They built semi-permanent towns as the English called them.
• Powhatan settlements were small fewer than a hundred people.
• They only had ten to twenty houses.

Food/Hunting

• Men fished and hunted for beer,beaver and deer.
• They cleared the land by cutting down trees so women
• Could plant corn,beans and tabacoo.

Celebrations

• The Powhatan tribe had a Grape festival and a Fiber festival.

Interesting Facts

• The Powhatan confederacy were the Indians among whom
• The English made the first permanent settlement.

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