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Eastern Woodland Indians

2. Corn, Beans & Squash

 

Native Americans grew corn, beans and squash also known as the Three Sisters.

Credit: Title: Corn, Beans & Squash. Author: Native Stock Pictures. Date: 2019.

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4. Meat Drying On Rack

 

Some Native Americans would dry strips of meat on wooden racks to preserve it for food during leaner months. To preserve food means to make it so that it lasts a long time. They ate fish, oysters, and wild animals, such as deer and rabbits

Credit: Title: Meat Drying on Rack. Author: Native Stock Pictures/ Universal Images Group. Date: 2019.

5. Woodlands Cooking Pot

 

Early American Indian tribes used clay cooking pots to cook stew and soup over a fire.

Credit:

Title: Woodlands Cooking Pot. Author: Marilyn Angel Wynn. Date: 2019.

Settlers

6. Settling the Land

 

European settlers grew crops that Native Americans grew, including corn, potatoes, pumpkins, squash, peanuts, and tobacco.  

Credit: Title: Exploration and Settlement of the Americas. Author: Encyclopedia Britannica. Date: 2019.

 

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7. What's for Dinner?

 

 

 

 

Early settlers also ate sturgeon (fish), turtles, wild blueberries, and deer.

 

The colonists usually prepared one-pot meals, called a pottage (stew) with whatever meat and vegetables were available. Everything was cooked together in a cast iron pot suspended  over an open fire.

Credit: Title: What's Cookin'? By Paul Neely. Date: Nov/Dec2009,  

 

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8. Surviving the First Settlement

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3. Click the image for more information on Native American food. 

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