The Creeks

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The Creeks

• By Peter, Lindsey, Chad, Ravneet

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Food

• The Creek killed fish with spears, floating
  traps, and lines with hooks.
• The Creek hunted and killed small animals with
  bows and arrows, traps, and blowguns.
• The Creek dug for oysters and clams.
• They killed small game with and birds with bows
  and arrows ,traps, and blowguns.
• The deer was the most important animal to hunt.
• The deers meat would provide food.
• The deers skin was used for a blanket.

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Clothing

• The Creek Indians wear tattoos all over their
  bodies for their accomplishments.
• The men wear deerskin and buffalo skin with a
  tiny strap around their hips.
• The kids wore no clothing until they were 12 or
  13 years old.
• The women wore deer skin skirts and a grass shawl
  over their right shoulder.

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Games

• Games were sometimes bloody like a real actual
  battle.
• Once a game of stickball was named the little
  brother of war.
• Stickball is now called lacrosse.
• Each player had at least two sticks.
• The sticks were two or three feet long.
• Their ball was animal fur wrapped in deerskin.

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Games

• Each field was a little more than 200 feet long.
• Sometimes people died or got a serious injury in
  this game.
• 75-100 men were on a team.

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Villages

• At the center of each village they had a playing
  field.
• Around the field the Creeks built their houses
  and council buildings.
• Near the houses there was a great planting field.
  
• The Green Corn Ceremony was held in the Chunky
  yard.

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Family Life

• Weddings were decided by the bigger women in the
  tribe.
• The women were the most important leader in the
  houses.
• The man was always helping around the house.
• Creek men could marry more than one woman.

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Trail of Tears

• Many families were thrown out of their houses and
  killed by the white man.
• The white men would put the Creeks in a stockade
  and it would be dirty, muddy, and nasty.
• President Andre Jackson made the Creeks go to
  Oklahoma. The journey made is known as the Trail
  of Tears.
• 4,000 Native Americans died on the Trail of
  Tears.
• When a tear or a drop of blood fell on the trail
  a white rose would bloom. This rose is called
  the Cherokee Rose.

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References

• The Creek by Elizabeth Hahn
• The Trail of Tears by Joseph Bruchac
• The Trail of Tears by Dan Elish