Eastern Woodland Transportation By bailey
Birch Bark Canoe
Birch bark canoes were a very useful and easy way to transport from place to place in the spring and summer. Birch bark canoes were very light and swift in the water.
Snowshoes!
In the winter, the Eastern Woodland Indians used snowshoes and tobbogans to get around when there was lots of snow. Snowshoes helped keep the Eastern Woodland Indians from sinking into the snow in the winter.
Birch bark tree
To make a canoe they had to strip birch bark for the cover of the canoe. They would take the birch bark and cover it around the cedar wood ribs then sew them together with spruce roots and seal it with tree sap. Snowshoes were sewn together with moose hides and either beech strips or primarily ash.
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