- Fact 2 - Northeastern tribes
inhabited lands of Woodland and Coast, Lakes and streams and
were hunters, fishers and farmers. Their crops included rice,
squash, melons, pumpkins.
- Fact 3 - Names of Border States:
Delaware, New York and Pennsylvania
- Fact 4 - Features of the area:
Appalachian Valley in the northwest;
Appalachian Highlands and mountain
ranges. Piedmont plateau, low plains broken by high ridges. Acoastal plain, covering three-fifths of the state in southeast
- Fact 5 -
The Indians of New Jersey were the Abnaki, Malecite,
Passamaquoddy and Pennacook
- Fact 6 - 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 7 - 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 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.
- Fact 10 - 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.
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