Abenaki - 1,000 tribe members went to Canada and 6,000 tribe members went to the US., Catawba - The tribe had their principal village on the west side of the river in north-central South Carolina., Cherokee - Their name is derived from a Creek word meaning “people of different speech”, Chickasaw - The tribe traded glass beads, had enslaved people and lived in chickees., Fox - The tribe's name means “red-earth people”, Iroquois - The tribe's name means rattlesnake, Choctaw - The tribe made a sport called StickBall, Miami - This tribe built their villages in fertile river valleys., Mohegan - The tribe's name means River of the Thames., Mohawk - One of the Iroquois tribes where women engaged in corn (maize) agriculture; men hunted during the fall and winter and fished during the summer., Mohican - The Mohawk and this tribe did not like each other., Nipmuc - This tribe lived mostly along rivers or near lakes., Narraganset - They were drawn into the war when they refused to turn over Wampanoag Indians who fled into their territory., Oneida - The tribe ate corns, beans, and squash. They also hunted deer and other animals., Onondaga - They made their own tools and weapons including stone hand axes, flint knives, wood hoes, bows and arrows, war clubs, and spears., Passamaquoddy - They built cone-shaped houses., Penobscot - This tribe sent warriors to help the colonists during the American Revolution., Pennacook - They hade to move when food was scarce and spoke Algonquian., Pequot - The tribe's name means “Destroyers”, Seneca - This tribe was the largest of the five Native American tribes that formed the Iroquois Confederacy., Tuscarora - The name means Shirt-Wearing People. The name refers to the long shirts worn by men of the tribe., Wampanoag - This tribe originally spoke an Algonquian language that is now extinct., Nancy Ward - This person secretly alerted settlers of planned Cherokee raids., Thayendanegea - This person recruited Native Americans from four of the six Iroquois nations to fight on the side of the British during the American Revolution.,

Tribal Research for Stephens' Class

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