1. •Southeast Indians
•Reiny Hitchcock, Alexis Kincaid
•Period 4

2. Tribes of the Southeast

 Alabama, Atakapa, Caddo, Catawba, Cherokee,
Chickasaw, Choctaw, Natechez, Seminole, and
Ticucua
Cherokee

3. Foods in the Southeast
 They ate the following

 Meats; deer, beaver , bear , raccoons , rabbit , turkey , otters ,
birds, squirrels
 Vegetables; corn, beans, squash, potatoes, peas, onions ,
cabbage, pumpkin, sunflowers
 Fruit; strawberry , melon , huckleberry, grapes, crabapples
 They also ate nuts
 They ate the food because that was the only resources they
could find

4. Clothing of the Southeast

 Men and women wore the following
 Men; breech cloth and had short hair
 Women; long dresses had their long hair held back
 Children; girls wore dresses, boys also wore breech
cloths

5. Homes of the Southeast

 Include the following
 Log houses ; Pit houses dug into the hillside
 Mostly the houses were made out wood but some
were made of leaves and dirt
Pit house

6. Native American Religions

 They believed in legends, special chants and songs
when hunting, all things are equal to humans, priests
learned special chants and ceremonies with charms
and herbs for treating illnesses

7. Tradition or Ceremony of
the Southeast

 Many ceremonial dances such as, Stomp dance and
Eagle dance. When preparing for war a man paint
another man with body paint. If a man wished to
marry he sends his sister/mother to the chosen girls
family to propose. When a person dies they get
buried under their house.

8. Arts/Crafts of the
Southeast

 The art and crafts made in the region are; spears , blow
guns called (Uski thompa) which were used in
hunting and also made baskets
Baskets

9. A Famous Cherokee

 John Herrington he is famous for being the first
Native American in space in 2002.

10. Interesting Facts from the
Southeast

 When men where born there heads where flattened because it was
attractive at the time
 Men let there hair grow long to show adulthood
 Women mothers taught them how to manage cooking and life at home
 When a man is wed and the bride has a sister(s) he is eligible to also marry
them and all live in one house
 When a man get married he lives with his wife's family
 When a man dies and he is married his brother has the opportunity to
marry the widow
 When a person of the tribe dies there faces are painted red and put into the
sitting position facing the west. The tribes believed that the after life was in
the west

11. Works Cited

 Bial, Raymond. The Cherokee. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation,
1999. Print.
 Mohel, A. Early Americans. St Louis: Milliken, 2003. print.
 Ryan, Marla. Tribes of Native America, Chickasaw. New York: Blackbird Press
and Thomson Learning, 2004. Print.
 Sherrow, Victoria. Native American; The Choctaw. Vero Beach, Florida: Rourke
Publications, INC., 1997. Print.
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12. Work Cited
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13. Work Cited
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