Native Americans Notes
The 3 main tribes of the Eastern Woodland region: Cherokee, Catawba, and Yemasee
They were different in their languages but similar in their culture and government.
They settled near rivers and streams.
The Eastern Woodland tribes were hunters/gathers, fisherman, and farmers.
Cherokee
Catawba
 Lived in the mountains
 Lived in the Piedmont
of the Blue Ridge and
region in what is
the hilly western
known today as Rock
Piedmont
Hill
 Traveled in dugout
 Traveled in dugout
canoes
canoes
 Lived in longhouses in
 Lived in wigwams
the summer and
 Famous for their
wattle and daub
pottery
houses in the summer
 Government run by
 They were powerful
council
and thought of
 Known as the “River
themselves as the
People”
“Real People”
 Government-run by
council
 The women sat on the
council and had a voice
in the decision to go to
war.
 Their leaders were
elected
 They were a nation
comprised of many
villages
 Traders: knew the
trails that ran from the
mountains to the
Atlantic Ocean.
Yemasee
 Lived in the Coastal
Zone region on the
southern coast of SC
near the Georgia
border
 Lived in wigwams in
the summer and
wattle and daub
houses in the winter
 Gathered clams and
oysters because they
lived on the coast
unlike the Cherokee
and Catawba