By: Josie Sheeler, Coey Phoenix, Charles Ball and Chloe Russell Lumbee Indian Tribe By: Josie Sheeler, Coey Phoenix, Charles Ball and Chloe Russell

Shelter The Lumbee Indians shelters were more like ours today. The homes were made out of wood and logs. They had chimneys and a fire place. Just like us.

Food Lumbee’s (Croatans) are harvest and farming people. They harvested corn, squash, beans and tobacco. They also hunted deer, wild turkeys and lots of other different types of animals. The Lumbee tribe lived off of many different vegetables and animals I am sure but these are the main foods that they cooked.

Clothing People don’t know exactly what the lumbee Indian tribe originally wore because they switched to European clothing so early in their history. As far as we know lumbee Indians wore a beaded headband with a feather or two in it. Lumbee women all wore knee length skirts and lumbee men all wore breeclothes. The lumbees definitely wore moccasins on there feet. Both lumbee women and men wore tattoos on there body’s. Today lumbee men and women were regular clothes like us.

Jobs The women and the girls jobs in the lumbee tribe were to do the mostly sewing, cooking and farming. The men and boys were mostly hunting and fishing.

Crafts and Storytelling The Lumbee Indians were know for their crafts like basket weaving, woodcarving and jewelry making. There are lots of traditional Lumbee legends and fairytales. Story telling is very important to the Lumbee culture. .