Assignment: Write a paragraph describing how the people of the Powhatan tribes lived, according to the book Blood of the River: Jamestown, 1607.
The people of the Powhatan tribes lived in a different lifestyle than ours. The clothes they wore were various kinds of hides. They wore buckskin breechcloth, but sometimes they did not wear any clothes.They put red puccoon on their skin to protect themselves from the sun and bugs. They had hair on one side of there head that was long and on the other side it was short. The work was based on gender back then.The women did the cooking, planting, weeding, harvesting and pottery. The men made the weapons for hunting and for battle.Their shelter was different then ours now.They were called long houses and they were made out of bark, trees and branches. Their lifestyle, including housing, clothes and work is different than ours in many ways.
The people of the Powhatan tribes lived in a different lifestyle than ours. The clothes they wore were various kinds of hides. They wore buckskin breechcloth, but sometimes they did not wear any clothes.They put red puccoon on their skin to protect themselves from the sun and bugs. They had hair on one side of there head that was long and on the other side it was short. The work was based on gender back then.The women did the cooking, planting, weeding, harvesting and pottery. The men made the weapons for hunting and for battle.Their shelter was different then ours now.They were called long houses and they were made out of bark, trees and branches. Their lifestyle, including housing, clothes and work is different than ours in many ways.