Indian Culture: The Delaware Tribe And Their Culture

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The entire tribe would live in a few longhouses. These longhouses could hold hundreds of people out of the thousands of people in the tribe. During the summer, the tribe will build temporary homes for hunting and gathering. These homes were small and weak but were used in beneficial manner.

The Delaware tribe hunted for food that they couldn’t grow. The men would hunt animals for the tribe. They gathered meat from animals such as deer, black bear, rabbit, turkey, and even duck. They would gather when their food was running low, and the tribe uses as much as the animal as possible.

The tribe has an odd way of moving from place to place. The tribe builds wooden boats from birch trees. This is done to traverse a multitude of water

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