PEOPLE OF THE TRAIL By Lukas,Miles,Atman,Elijah

CLOTHING The People Of The Trail wore snow suits, jackets, shirts, moccasins, foot wear, mitts, gauntlets,sun glasses, and socks. The materials that they used were wood, awls, wolverine, hides, and skins.

FAMILY LIFE The man’s role is to hunt, fish, skin animals, build a house, make knives, arrows and bows. The woman’s role is to take care of the babies, pick berries, cook, and collect materials to help build the home.

LANGUAGE Luiseno paa-la, papago wa-, aztec a-tl all mean water. Luiseno pe-t,papago woog, and aztec a-tli all mean road. There are still 500 languages and about 14 million speakers.

Food Some of the foods the Native Americans ate were jack fish, trout and graylings. They got them by fishing.

HUNTING BIRDS They got eagles and pemmicans by using nets and string.

HUNTING They got beaver from putting down beaver traps. They also got bears, wolverine, mink, rabbits, moose and caribou by hunting.

CEREMONIES One ceremony is a boy or girl would go into the forest and would wait there until an animal came by and that would be there spirit animal and they can never kill that animal or where it’s skin.

Music and Dance They did dances and sang songs about all living things such as plants,rivers and the earth itself. Like the Plains people of the south, the Northern Trail Indians had drums and danced with them.The beating of their drums was like a heart beat.

BELIEFS People believed that drums like dreams can reveal your path.

NATIVE AMERICANS TOOLS, INTERESTING FACTS AND BELIEFS TOOLS, INTERESTING FACTS AND BELIEFS

HUNTING The Northern Forest Indians used lots of different tools. The hunting tools that they used were bows and arrows, nets and sometimes string for eagle hunts. They also used daggers to hunt smaller animals.

BUILDING The tools that they used for other things like building houses were stone axes and wooden or stone knives.

CLIMATE A common temperature in August and July is 42 CELCIUS. Snow can come from September to May. The snow falls hardest from December to March.

The Northern Forest Indians believed in lots of different things. One of their beliefs was that each child had to go into the forest and stay there until he or she found a special friend or body guard. After this, the child could come back to the village. BELIEFS