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People think they lived in tepees, but they don't live in tepees They actually lived in settled vilages or brichbark houses, called wiginograns or wigwams, But mostly call them wigwams In the winter the village spilt up to go into hunting camps where each family was included in these camps, In winter only the men hunted women cleaned Today most Algonquin people live in modern homes, you and me also live in modern homes Today they only build brichbark houses for fun, where as back then they lived in them 24/7

they beat drums, and bums don't made of brichbark, just like their homes are made out of brichbark a canvas covers the top, now a canvas cover is replaced with a new material used them at meetings, now meetings are all boring also played tamborines made of a circle of wood, tamborines today are maded the same way canvas is going across one side that they hit with their hands to make music, the same way we do today

some tribes farm others mainly hunt, today mix of both farming and hunting used to use fish to fertilize their corn fields, today we use water to grow corn tapped holes in maple trees for sap to make sugar, today we make sugar with awhole bunch of other things Ate clams, oysters, lobsters, mussels, and other shellfish, people today eat the same shellfish men hunted moose, beaver, otter, wild birds, and other small animals, today most hunters still hunt wild birds women gathered nuts, greens, and berries, today you can still pick berries women also grew corn, beans, and squash, today we still eat squash

women wore long dresses with removable sleeves, today alittle amount of women still wear long dresses men wore breechcloths and leggings, men today don't wear leggings both genders wore moccasins, today some people still wear moccasins men wore their hair in the mohawk style, most boys still wear the mohawk style men and women bothe wore long braids, men today don't usually wear long braids some men wore head pieces, today little kids like to wear head pieces as toys to dress up in some men wore elaborate tattoos, men and women today still wear tattoos