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By: Unique, Tyler, and Emma
A ceremony the Tuscarora celebrates is
Thanksgiving.
The Tuscarora believed all objects had a soul.
They believed creators or great spirits made the world.
They have a creation story much like the Judeo
Christian story of Adam and Eve in the garden. They
also believed that all natural resources had a soul.
The Tuscarora’s clothing traditional. Everybody’s clothing
was hand made. They would wear deerskins, that women tanned, cut,
and sewed. Like most Native Americans, the Tuscarora used what
nature provided, and fashioned it for there needs.
Women wore long skirts that almost reached almost to there
ankles. The skirts were decorated with beads or porcupine quills dyed
red, blue or yellow. Women sometimes wore leggings under their skirt.
For a top (shirt) the women wore a deerskin vest or blouse.
The men wore kilt-like skirts almost down to their knees over
leggings. They also wore blouses or a vest made of decorated
deerskins.
Children also wore the same clothing as their parents.
The Tuscarora lived in longhouses. The longhouse is 30-60 ft.
long. It was made out of saplings and elm bark. They took the
saplings, then tied it , then they took another sapling and put side
ways on the first one. Then they covered the frame with elm bark.
The inside of the long house had fireplaces for warmth and
cooking. There were holes in the ceiling of the longhouse to allow
smoke to escape.
There were 24 families in one single longhouse. An
Iroquois village was made up of ten to eighty longhouses.
The Tuscarora gather and eat wild
foods like game and fish. They
also eat corn, beans and squash.
The women plant, weed,
and pick the food after the land is
cleared by the men. The girls help
dig the holes for the seeds.
The men hunt for wild game
and fish.
Contribution
The first people walked from place
to place, and carried what they could.
Dogs were used to pull loads. The dogs
were hitched to an A- made of two long
poles with hide stretched between the
two poles. Food, clothing, tipis and
household belongings were carried on
these poles. This method of
transportation was called the travois
(pronounced trav wah). Sometimes
children and old people were carried by
travois.
Bibliography
• Northern Indians
Packet
• If You Lived with The
Iroquois
By Ellen Levine
Scholastic Inc. 1998
• The Iroquois by
Stefanie Takacs
Children’s Press 2003