The Algonquin tribes lived in houses called wigwams, half-covered with elm bark. In winter, the poles were covered with woven mats of cattail stalks, because they were warmer than the crust. Under the country that has been stamped down with stopala.Požar was built in the middle of the floor and the smoke escaped through a small hole in the roof. Elevated platforms around the sides are used for sleeping and sjedenje.Odjeću worn by both men and women are usually made of deerskins. They wore soft shoes called buckskin moccasins.
Men are usually only worn breechcloth during the summer. The women raised corn, squash and beans, in small forest clearings. Men were hunters and deer forests get most of their meat, as well as fine leather clothing. They are jugs and pots of clay, and he knew how to make twine and twine from the inside of the bark of trees such as swamp ash and lime. By the white man came to know anything about metal, and made knives, needles and tools from animal bone and stone. Their weapons are bows and arrows, knives, axes and tomahawks combat called.
arrows, knives and ax heads are made of stone. One of the best things you have done the Algonquins birchbark canoe, a boat that was strong enough to carry three people still light enough that it takes one man. It is made of light strong wood frame tightly bound together and covered with birchbark. Use of canoe, Algonquin Indian could travel quickly and quietly through the woods for long distances. Their medicine men knew a lot about herbs and roots, and many of the white settlers called them for help when they were sick. Algonquin Indian women have their own beauty aids. They carry the fat to make them shiny hair, and wore his hair long, because it is considered beautiful. They put fish oil and grease eagle on their faces to make the skin soft.
is sometimes mixed red color of the fat that gives color to the face, just like women today, when they put their faces on the Rouge. People are even greater care of the hair than women. They dressed him with bear fat every day, and even soot mixed into it to make it look blacker than he was. They have a shaved head except for the ridge of hair in the middle of the head from front to back and often binds all kinds of decorations such as bits of shell and stone at her. They also painted pictures of animals and birds on their bodies and carried bags of paint on them as part of their toilet kits. Both men and women like to wear embroidered leather band around his head. That is often stuck red feathers, but a large feathered hairstyle so often seen on the Indians in the movies was not wearing Algonquin Indians, but mostly by the Sioux, the tribe of the western plains. Each tribe has a chief who was a leader in peace and war, but serious problems have been discussed on some kind of mass gatherings of people from the tribe.
This meeting is often called the ceremony, the word is now used in the English language. At the ceremony a large fire was built and they all sat around and ate food. Some were singing sacred songs and prayers offered. There was much banging drums, rattling shake, singing and dancing. Between the singing and dancing was a discussion about the problem. This could go on for days until a decision is reached. Algonquin tribe who live along the Atlantic coast of the Abnaki, Algonkin Delaware, Mahican, Massachusetts, Micmac, Narraganset, Neskapi, Pequot, Powhatan and the Wampanoag tribe. Algonquin tribe who live around the Great Lakes are the Cree, Illinois, Kickapoo, Menomini, Miami, Ojibway, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Sauk and Fox and Shawnee.
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