- Fact 2 - These Indians were static
Woodland tribes of hunter fishers. Men were in charge of hunting
for food and protecting the camp and the women were in charge of
the home and land
- Fact 3 - Names of Border States:
Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont
- Fact 4 - Features of the area: Low
rolling coast followed by countless hills and mountains rising
out of a central plateau.
- Fact 5 - The Indians of
New Hampshire were the were the Abenaki, Malecite, Passamaquoddy
and Pennacook
- Fact 6 - The Abenaki were feared as
fierce warriors. The Abenakis is an Algonquian language speaking
Indian tribe. They were one of the five members of the Wabanaki
Confederacy which consisted of the Abenaki, Míkmaq, Penawapskewi,
Pestomuhkati and Wolastoqiyik
Fact 13 - Pequot: Two small independent Pequot tribal nations
inhabit areas of Connecticut - the Mashantucket Pequot and the
Paucatuck Pequot.
- Fact 7 - The
Maliseet are also known as the Malecite tribe. In the Jay Treaty
of 1794, the Maliseet were granted free travel between the
United States and Canada because their territory spanned both
sides of the border. They were hunters, fishers and farmers.
They planted crops of corn (maize), beans and squash.
- Fact 8 - The Passamaquoddy tribe
were hunter, fishers and farmers. They hunted inland in the
winter and in the summer grouped together on the coast to farm
corn, beans, and squash. They harvested seafood and sea mammals
including porpoise.
- Fact 9 - The Pennacook, aka the Merrimack and
Pawtucket, were an Algonquian-speaking tribe who farmed maize,
corn, and squash. They primarily inhabited the Merrimack River
valley of present-day New Hampshire. They were closely related
to the Abenaki who they often fought with. They were decimated
by European diseases to which they had no immunity.
- Wigwams (or wetus) are
also known as birchbark houses and used by
tribes of Indians in the woodland regions. Wigwams are small
cone-shaped houses with an arched roof made of wooden frames
that are covered with woven mats and sheets of birchbark which
are held in place by ropes or strips of wood
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