Seminole+Food+and+Cooking

My Food and Cooking Speech =Food and cooking= The Seminole Tribe fished for fish on canoes. They also hunted for otters, raccoons, bobcats, alligators, turtles and birds. Also of course the main hunting source of food deer. To catch deer, they would burn some grass near the village. When the new grass came in and the deer came to eat, the tribe hunters came to catch them. The bow and arrow were used to hunt the deer. Blowguns were used to hunt small game and sometimes birds.

For farming, the Seminole tribe planted pumpkins, pawpaws which are also called poor man's bananas and corn. They gathered seeds, berries, nuts, bananas, oranges, pineapple and coconuts. All parts of the palmetto palm tree were used for food Their corn was their main crop. It was used to make corn flour, corn bread, corn pancakes and even a nice corn soft drink called Sofkee. Sofkee is still popular among the Seminole's today.

The Creek Indians were primarily farmers. They raised corn, squash, peanuts, sweet potatoes, and melons. Each family had its own garden. All members of the tribe helped plant, cultivate, and harvest the crops. They also gathered seeds, berries, and nuts. The men hunted fowl, turtles, fish, shellfish, and deer. The Indians ate many fruits including bananas, oranges, pineapples, and coconuts. All parts of the palmetto palm tree were used for food. The top was eaten. Molasses was made from the berries. The leaves were ground into flour. Even salt was gathered from the burned trunk of the tree.

=Annotated Bibliography= cabbage. > it tells you every information about the Seminole tribe!!!! come to this one by jessica L visited on december 10th its...AWESOME!!!
 * This is the site where I got the Seminole Pumpkin picture. http://www.leahgauthier.com/sowin/images/seminole_pumpkin.jpg
 * By Mr.Donn and Maxie the circus dog. ©2004. http://nativeamericans.mrdonn.org/southeast/seminole.html Visited by Byron D on November 25, 2008. This site was a very useful research site on the Seminole tribe. It told basically everything on the Seminole and even had more than that!
 * http://www.seminoletribe.com/history/brief.shtml visited by Byron D on December 1, 2008. This site tells a very good summary on what the Seminole tribe about but missed a few like food, hunting and more. It was still very useful in some cases.
 * http://www.nanations.com/seminole/index.htm visited by Byron D on December 1, 2008. This site is just telling a brief summary on the tribe but has lots more than just one tribe. It had heaps and heaps of brief summaries on Native American tribes. I just happened to stumble on this page and get a bit of info.
 * http://www.seminoletribe.com/culture/foodgallery.shtml visited by Byron D on December 4, 2008. If you want to see some pictures of some Seminole food, you should go to this site. There are more links to more information on the Seminole tribe.
 * http://www.seminoletribe.com/culture/food.shtml visited by Jessica L December 8th 2008. This site tells you about how to cook swamp
 * i have found an interesting book called "the Seminoles".it tells you information on how to cook things. you may borrow it from the library. Jessica L December 10th 2008
 * http://www.seminolechronicle.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2008/11/26/492b2f16377bf visited by Jessica L on December 10th 2008. this website tells you news about the Seminoles.
 * Here's a really interesting website over all I think!!!!! It's fabulous!~ http://www.nanations.com/seminole/seminole/seminole-dwellings.htm
 * Don't forget Mrs. Bissmeyer. She was the one who taught me how to make a clay pot. She might even be in other Annotated Bibliographies. She also taught other people how to make Baskets! She is VERY useful.