Potawatomi

Location: Michigan and Wisconsin

Homes: Wigwam

Food: corn, beans, squash, tobacco, wild rice berries, deer, elk, wild birds, fish, maple syrup

Transportation:

Birch bark canoes

Clothing:

Women; long deerskin dresses Men; breechcloths, leggings, and deerskin shirts

Cheyyenne

Location: South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas

Homes:Wigwams or Teepees

Food: corn, squash, and beans. Hunted deer and buffalo

Transportation: Travois

Clothing:

Women; long deerskin dresses Men; breechcloths, leggings, and deerskin shirts

Salish

Location: Washington

Homes:

Earthen lodges sometimes known as "pit houses

Food: staple food was salmon. Men also hunted for elk, buffalo, mountain sheep, and small game. Women gathered nuts, roots, and berries to add

to their diet.

Transportation:

Birchbark canoes

Clothing:

Breech cloths with leggings and short buckskin shirts with patterns of holes punched into them. Women wore buckskin dresses with leggings and sometimes a fringed cape

Navajo

Location: Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado

Homes:

Hogan

Food: corn, beans, and squash. Also hunted deer, antelope, and small game, gathered nuts, fruits, and herbs

Transportation:

Travois

Clothing: men wore breechcloths and the women wore skirts made of woven yucca fiber. Shirts were not necessary in Navajo culture, but both men and women wore deerskin ponchos or cloaks of rabbit fur in cool weather, and moccasins on their feet.

Cherokee

Location: Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee

Homes:

Made of rivercane and plaster, with thatched roofs

Food: corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers. Also gathered berries, nuts and fruit to eat. Hunted deer, wild turkeys, and small game and fished in the rivers

Transportation: long dugout canoes from hollowed-out logs. Over land, the

Cherokees used dogs as pack animals

Clothing; men wore breechcloths and leggings. Cherokee women wore

wraparound skirts and poncho-style blouses made out of woven fiber or deerskin

Wampanoag

Location: Massachusetts and Rhode Island

Homes: Wigwam

Food: corn, squash and beans. Men hunted for deer, turkeys, and small game and went fishing in their canoes. Wampanoag children collected other food like berries,

nuts and herbs

Transportation: dugout canoes by hollowing out huge trees

Clothing: women wore knee-length skirts. men wore breechcloths with leggings. Neither women nor men had to wear shirts in the Wampanoag culture, but they would

dress in deerskin mantles during cool weather