By Garett Harvey
Third-grade Wellington School
The Algonquin Indians lived in the northeast. They made square houses called wigwams out of bark, grass, logs, trees and sticks. They used animal skins for the door.
Using canoes the Algonquins gather their food in marshlands. They catch fish and eat seaweed and berries. They also plant corn, beans and squash. They hunt moose, caribou, beaver, otter and other small animals with bows and arrows and traps. A fire pit is used to cook their food. They tap maple trees for sap to make sugar.
Animal skins are used for their clothes. They use flowers, leaves and stems to stitch their clothes and baskets. Straw, rush and cedar are used to make mats.
Dream catchers are made to protect their babies. In winter they play a game called snowsnake. Every six weeks they put on a powwow.
