The Seminole people of the Southeast Region

1. The Seminole people of the Southeast Region .”

2. What region is home to the Seminole? Inuits Kwakiutl Nez Perce PAWNEE Hopi Seminole

3. How did the Seminole get to Florida? • Creek Indians in Georgia left Georgia to avoid fighting with other Creek Indians. • The Spanish word for “runaway” is cimarron, which is where Seminole came from. • The Seminole people were a mix of Creek Indians, Muscogee Indians, freed black slaves, and some white people. They all came to Florida to escape conflicts. • The Seminole people call themselves the “unconquered people” because when US troops tried to make all the Seminoles leave Florida, only about 300 people lived through the attacks by US troops. They hid in the Everglades.

4. What is the geography of the Southeast region? Everglades-swamps Cypress trees • Varies in the region • Look at this slide and the next Check out The next slide Before you answer

5. More geography • This region’s geography varies from mountains, to plains, to swamps, and then to the ocean coastline.

6. Climate of the Southeast Region • Wide variety of weather • Hot summers • Cold winters in parts of the region, but very mild winters in Florida. • Often, the summer is hot and dry with little rain in the more northern parts, but hot and rainy in Florida. • Hurricanes affect Florida and the coastlines, but not South Florida as much.

7. How did the environment affect the homes the Seminole built? Chickees were made from palm fronds and cypress trees They could be made quickly, which helped as the Seminole would run to avoid capture by US troops.

8. . Inside the chickee

9. Did you know? • Seminole Indians originally built log cabins that were two stories. • Once they began to be chased by US troops, the chickee house was used because it could be built quickly while on the run. • The houses are meant to blend into the environment so that US troops could not easily find them. • The houses will last 5-10 years.

10. How did the environment affect what the Seminole people ate? • They ate bananas, oranges, limes, lemons, guavas, pineapples, grapes (black and red), cocoa nuts, cocoa plums, sea grapes, and wild plums. • They also ate sweet potatoes, honey, sugar cane, and cabbage. • They grew corn and rice. • Koonti root was used to make bread and flour

11. What meat did they eat? • Seminole men did most of the hunting and fishing, catching game such as deer, opossum, wild turkeys, rabbits, turtles, chickens, and alligators. They ate more turtle, fish and oysters if they lived near the ocean. • Seminole hunters used bows and arrows. Fishermen usually used fishing spears.

12. Canoes • Made from Cypress trees.

13. Were they nomads?

14. How did the environment affect the Seminole people’s clothes? • Clothes were made of cloth from trading posts. • Girls wore necklaces, which they never removed and just kept adding to. • They had sewing machines by the 1880s. • Did not wear animal skins. Why?

15. They invented patchwork.