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Powhatan Tribe: Pocahontas

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Pocahontas Pocahontas is a member of the Powhatan tribe and she lives in the eastern woodland region. If you were wondering, she has more than one name her names are Pocahontas, matoaka, and amonute. She also lives in Virginia. her heritage is very interesting. she makes snowshoes, wampum, dreamcatchers, and false face society. They are hunters, gathers, trappers, and traders.they wore little clothes except in the winter in the winter she wore animal skins or buckskins. they live in longhouses, wigwams, and wets’. they used canoes, traps, birch bark, and baskets as tools. Pocahantas tribe also had some famous Native Americans like her, her dad Powhatan, Tecumseh, black hawk, and Squanto. they had a lot powwows and we had many festivals.

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