NATIVE AMERICANS

Learning about the Native Americans has also interested me.  Colleen and I were paired up to work on the Native American project together.  We chose to learn more about the Muscogee tribe.  Before doing this project I knew nothing about the Muscogee and what they had done.  They created amazing pottery and ceramics.  They built pyramids and ceremonial complexes along the riversides. 

            There are two creek tribes:

·      The Poarch Creeks live in Alabama on a reservation.

o   The land is owned by the tribe and under their control.

·      The Oklahoma Creeks live on a trust land. 

o   Has its own government, laws, police, and other services.

Dance was very prominent in the Muscogee.  Stomp dance is a set of traditional social and religious brought across the Trail of Tears from the Muscogee ancestral homelands in Georgia and Alabama.  It’s a demonstrative prayer. 

Muscogee wore very few clothes. Men wore deerskin breechcloths and women wore skirts.  European traders introduced wool and cotton to the Muscogee in the early 1700’s.

For food the men hunted deer and the women gathered nuts, wild onions, and berries.  Corn was very important and women ground it into meal and made “softkey.” 

A typical village was built around the council house and a large field used for sports.  The houses had thatched roofs