Shawnee and Creek Peoples

By April Wilkerson

Where they lived

Shawnee

Claimed middle Tennessee between the Sequatchie(se - KWA – chee) River and the Tennessee River for their home land.

Creek

Built towns in Southeastern Tennessee along the the Sequatchie(se - KWA – chee) River

Location by 1600

Today they live mostly on reservations and treaty land in Oaklahoma.

Hunting

Shawnee

Hunted deer, turkey, and bear in Middle Tennessee

Did not waste any part of the animal

Used skins to making clothing and shelter

Creek

Hunted various animals in Middle Tennessee

Used skins to make winter clothing

Resources/Economics

Shawnee

Hunting Animals Produced Animal

products

Creeks

Hunting Animals Farming

Shelter

Shawnee Lived in villages. Council house that

was used for meetings and ceremonies.

Built Longhouses with wood branches and covered with sheets of bark or animal skins.

Creek

Lived in towns. Had 2 homes: 1 for

winter and 1 for summer.

Clothing

Shawnee

Made shirts, pants, shoes and skirts.

Decorated with shells, beads, porcupine quills, and feathers.

Creek

Had 2 sets of clothing

Winter clothing made of animal skins and fur

Summer clothing made of woven plant materials tree bark, grass, and reeds.

Celebrations

Shawnee

Bread Dance Honored women for

farming in the spring Celebrated men’s

successful hunts in the fall.

Creek Green Corn Ceremony

(Posketv (Bus-get-uh) meaning to fast

Celebrates “Renewal of Cycle” (New Year)

Celebrates the communities Spiritual and Social Life

Symbolically it means “Return of Summer” and ripening of new corn

Dates back to their Ancestors the Mississippian Mound Builders and is still practiced to date.