The Miami Tribe

Greg Hampton

Our unit on historic American culture allowed us to learn how historic Americans from a certain tribe lived. The tribe I chose was called the Miami tribe. After doing this project I have learned many facts. In the following sentences I will tell you about this tribe. First, they hunted buffalo, deer, and bear. They also collected or grew fruits and vegetables. They grew mainly corn and picked cherries, plums and nuts.

The next important fact I learned was that they dressed really fancy. They would sew deer hide together because it was the easiest to sew. They would make necklaces and other jewelry out of shells and teeth.

The last example of what I learned was that the Miami tribe had lived in longhouses that were thirty to one hundred feet long and twelve to fifteen feet high. Their houses could hold thirty to sixty people in them. Those are a few things I learned while studying this tribe.