Isabella Pelaez 9/26/14

730 Social Studies

1. What did the museum teach you about Native American tribes?

In the museum I learned many things about the different Native
American tribes. The tribes I learned about were the Sioux, the
Iroquois, the Seminole and my tribe, the Wampanoag. From visiting
the Sioux I learned that they were taught to believe that war was just a
little game and it wasnt that serious. I also learned that the main
animal that the Sioux hunted was the buffalo. Lastly I learned that the
Sioux lived in North and South Dakota. I learned from the Iroquois
station that they had a very big population of 51,000 people and that
1% of Native American is made up of the Iroquois. Also, I learned that
they were known as the people of the longhouse. The final tribe I
learned about was the Seminole. I learned that they lived in Florida
and that the first war they had lasted for 2 years! I also learned from
this group that they hunted; fish, buffalo, alligators. They did not only
hunt alligators, but they also wrestled them! I learned a lot of cool and
interesting facts about the different Native America tribes.








2. Choose one of the tribes that you observed. How does this tribe compare
to the tribe that you studied? What is similar between this tribe and your
tribe? What is different?

A tribe that I thought had many similarities and differences to my
tribe the Wampanoag was the Seminole. Some things that were similar
were both tribes spoke two languages. The Seminole spoke English
and Muscogee and the Wampanoag spoke English and Wampanoag.
Another thing both tribes had in common was the fact that they were
both weakened by diseases that English settlers brought to their land,
which also decreased both tribes population. One last similarity was
that both the Wampanoag and the Seminole had many acres of land
(Wampanoag= 481 acres, Seminole= 540 acres). While both these
tribes may be very similar they also had many differences. For
example, they lived in different places. The Wampanoag lived in
Massachusetts while the Seminole lived in Florida. Another difference
was the Seminole had been in a war that lasted 2 years (1816 1818)
while Wampanoag had never been in a war that lasted many years,
there was only one war that they had faced, and it ended in a result to
the death of many English men. In the end both tribes have many
similarities along with many differences.