Native American Food

Native Americans who lived beside the sea ate clams, oysters, lobsters, mussels, and other shellfish. Others ate wild birds and game. One main food was the wild rice the Native Americans gathered, that grew in the marshlands around the Great Lakes. The Native Americans of the Great Lakes knocked off grains with sticks so the rice fell into their canoes.
The Cherokee had one large garden in which they grew beans, corn, squash, pumpkins and sunflowers.
The Algonquin Indians wrapped fish in seaweed then cooked it in a pit dug in the earth.
The men hunted moose, caribou, beaver, otter, and other small animals. They also hunted for bear and ate it for supper. The Algonquin people did some farming, but were mainly hunters.
We enjoyed studying Native American foods.

By Lauren  and Gary