Tuscarora By Heather Borodzik

Hunting/Gathering They gathered nuts, berries and other wild foods , fished, hunted for black bear, elk, deer, rabbit, wolves and trapped wild turkeys. They also trapped ducks and other birds. They also hunted turtles.

Games/Entertaining Snow snake is played by man in the winter on frozen lakes. They use a carved stick, a meter long with a head resembling a snake.

Ceremonies/Festivals At the Maple festival they collecting the sap to make sugar and syrup The Iroquois asked the spirit to help make seeds grow during the Planting Festival. The last festival was the New Year’s festival.

Family The river cobble hammer stones to roughly chip out the shapes of our knives and points and scraping tools. They also have a medicine man. To make medicine they combined herbs.

Tools/ Medicine The river cobble hammer stones to roughly chip out the shapes of our knives and points and scraping tools They also have a medicine man. To make medicine the combined herbs

Clothing The Tuscaroras ware wool leggings. The women ware 3 ribben belts. The men ware a red white and blue turban.

Area Lived You would see a bark covered dwelling with field of maize. Beans and squash will be in the background. Strawberries and currents will also be in the background.

FOOD/FARMING They ate wild cherries, strawberries, currents and huckleberries. They also produced crops such as corn beans and squash.

shelter They many materials to make a longhouse such as elm bark, tree trunks and deer tons. For their wigwams, they use flexible saplings other making a criss-crossing patern. Then they put layers of bark.

Work Cited Facts for kids 11/10/10 11/17/10