Hunting and farming in Ancient America: the Woodland and Plains Indians

Farming

Hunting

Food

Methods: simple digging stick

Woodland:

land left fallow for years; slash and burn - trees and other plants cut down, then everything burnt to clear the land for cultivation

Crops:

"the Three Sisters" - maize, beans, squash

Woodland:

methods: boats, nets, arrows

animals: fish, caribou, moose, beaver, birds

Plains:

methods: horseback, arrows, spears

animals: buffalo, deer, antelope, bear, eagle - for feathers

roasted animals, soups

Woodland:

soup based on mosses

Plains:

roasted dogs