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Food and Cooking  By: Byron Dolon 5SH December 1, 2008 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, 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. 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. I chose to make the blowgun because I thought the Seminole’s used it a lot to hunt and preferred a bow and arrow rather than a spear or sword because they liked to hunt from a distance.