1. Peoples of the Eastern Woodland
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2. Clothing
The peoples of the eastern woodlands worn mammal, bird, and fish skin. Skins were getting tanned during a smoking process. It was later stretched to make softer and usable leather. Leathers were mostly sewn to make robes, shirts, leggings, skirts, dresses, breech cloths, and moccasins. Deerskin was most popular because of the big population of deer. The clothes men worn were robes, leggings, moccasins, breech cloths for winter and special occasion. They also worn mittens, special coats and hats. Women worn robes under their arms and tied around their waists, leggings, a skirts, and moccasins. Some of the decorations they used were small beads made from white and purple shells, and they wore wampum belts that were used for special occasions.

3. Language
The languages that the Easten Woodland People spoke were eastern Algonquian and central Algonquian. Some people also spoke Iroquoian that was the language of the Iroqouois.

4. Politics
For the Algonquians they had no major confederacies. The largest political unit was the 'village band'. The Algonquians were broken down into clans, and those clans would come together to share resources. The Iroquoian's were democratic because they had two leaders from every clan. Those two leaders were voted by the elderly women of each clan. The "civil chief" would organize normal activities of their clan, the "military chief" would negotiate an agreement between disputing people. There were three levels of the Iroquoian government. There were town, tribal, and confederacy. At every level everyone tried to cooperate with everyone in order to make things go smooth. In every decision, the majority rules. Women were responsible of crops and fields. When a husband and wife wed they would live with the wife's family.

5. Culture
Culture also played a good role in society. One of there cultures were farming, hunting. They would also negotiate with other native nations for resources. When a person was sick people would perform a dance to help the sick get better. Societies were mainly divided into classes, including chief, children, nobility, and commoners.

6. Religion
Eastern Algonquian people believed that there is a spiritual world interacting with the physical world. There were people that were called the Shamans who could communicate and control spirits, they were the most important people. In Algonquians legend there was once a evil spirit called the 'Windigo', people who were lost and starving in the woods would be cannibals and become Windigoes. The Iroquoians believed that there is a spirit that is present in living and non living things.

7. Survival
The Algonquians people had to survive, and get the resources they need. They collected edible plants and hunted animals for food. Some groups did farm, the MI'Kmaq's grew tobacco, Ottawa, Abenaki, and Algonquian grew beans, squash, and corn. The people of Eastern Woodlands became very skilled hunters. They lived in forested areas and were usually close to water. During Winter they would hunt smaller animals, during the summer they would focus on fishing. The most important animal is the white tailed deer. White-tailed deer had meat and dry skin used for making clothing and houses and there was a big population of deer.

8. Environment
Deciduous trees like Maples, poplars, birches, elms, oaks and Coniferous trees like pines, the spruces and the firs. Especially important to them were the sugar maples, from which they got syrup; the elm whose bark was used to cover their houses and canoes, or to make pails; basswood from which they made ropes. In the meadows, berry bushes, like blueberries or raspberries. There were squirrels, bears, rabbits, bear, moose and deer. Lakes, rivers and streams; freshwaters full of trout and salmon. The Word ‘Ontario’ comes from the Iroquois word ‘Onitariio’ meaning ‘Beautiful Lake’. Because their environment was so productive, some 4,000 years ago they decided to stay put and become farmers. In fact they were the only Canadian native people to live primarily by farming.

9. Location
They inhabited the shores of the Great Lakes to the St. Lawrence River, and up towards Georgian Bay, in Southwestern and South-Central Ontario.

10. Art
The Clay pipe of the Eastern Woodland Farmers, were ornately decorated and crafted, and reserved for special occasions. The ‘Peace Pipe’ was reserved for council use only. Clan logos and symbols continually decorated longhouses, war posts, trees, clothing and moccasins. Men and women would sometimes have tattoos, which had symbolic significance. The False Face Society had masks which were very expressive. Rattles were made from deer toes, tied to a piece of hide, which was tied to a person’s knee. When they moved, the rattle shook.

11. Food
The algonquian people of the Eastern Woodlands were hunter-gatherers, meaning they relied on collecting edible plants and hunting wild animals as their main source of food. Agriculture of the nations came originally from other cultures years ago- Mayans in Mexico planted corn, beans, squash, pumpkins and melons years ago- Process moved north, tribes localized their crop years ago- the Iroquois-language nations adapted the process of agriculture. Eastern Woodland Farmers grew the three sisters: Corn, Bean and Squash. Crop fields were cleared by slashing and burning the trees. The crop grew in circular fields, up to 12,000 acres in area, a few hundred feet away from the village. Women managed the fields; as symbols of fertility they brought good luck to the harvest. Their crops of corn attracted lots of birds and animals, so women would have to stand on platforms in the fields and act as live scare crows to beat pots to "scare the crows." In July, corn was hilled; soil was hoed up around bases, to protect the lanky plant from uprooting in bad weather. The ‘Green Corn Ceremony,’ much like Thanksgiving, was a feast in August when the green corn crop was harvested and eaten. The majority of corn was harvested in fall; up to 150,000 bushels per season. Husks were folded back, braided into rope, and corn was hung from longhouse rafters, along with squash slices. Dirt pits outside the longhouse stored and insulated extra food. Cornmeal was made using mortar and pestels or grinding stones

12. Shelter
New villages were settled every 10 to 30 years. Every ten or twenty years – whenever the soil got poor, the place got too dirty, or the fish and game became scarce - everyone would move their village to a new place where the soil was richer in nutrients and the fish and game still plentiful. Men looked a few kilometers away, for a place near the water with lots of light that was on a hilltop for better defense and good drainage. Site was near a forest that was partly cleared for crops. A couple years before site moves, the field was cleared near the new village. A palisade around the village and longhouses were built using wood from smaller trees and saplings, along with some materials from the old village. A village could have 20 to 200 longhouses. Each family or clan would construct their own longhouse. Among the Eastern Woodland farmers, 60 villages were identified, that provided shelter for 60,000 people and 50,000 acres of cultivation.

13. Technology
Stone Axes
They were used for stripping bark, clearing fields and removing fat from hides. A stone was found, then chipped into shape using a harder hammerstone, ground and polished using a sandstone slab and then fitted with a handle. Process took many hours, so axes were highly valued and not lent to others.
Arrowheads
Made from chert, or flint, from sedimentary rock. When the rock broke, it left sharp edges. Arrowheads were used for hunting and were shaped like isosceles triangles. The smallest ones were for hunting birds, the bigger ones to spear bears or deer.
Knives
Flint knives were often oval or teardrop shaped. Were pointed at both ends, so they could be fitted with a handle.