Southeast Region By: Brina M, Sarah G, Dean E, and Gray M
Tribes Creeks, Choctaws, and Seminoles
Artifact 1 (Shelter) Resources used The Seminoles built their homes called Chickees, on wooden platforms three feet above the ground so that the water wouldn’t touch their homes. The Chickees had no walls to let the breezes through.
Artifact 2 (Clothing/accessories)Resourses used/purpose To protect the Seminole's legs from sharp saw grass and mosquitoes, the seminoles wore leggings, made out of deer hides.
Artifact 3 (Tool/misc.)Resources used/purpose Seminoles made flat-bottomed dugout canoes, that they built from a tree log. They hollowed it out with stone and bone scrapers.
Other info Wooden posts supported a slanted roof made of palm tree leaves. In the 1700s, the Seminoles came to live in the Everglades swamplands of southern Florida.