Tuskegee
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: Alabama
Little ethnographic data exist for the Tuskegee, who were horticulturalists and warriors. They possessed stone tools, practiced extensive intertribal trade, and possessed specialized predation and war technology. As did many tribes with maize economies, they had complex ceremonies, including fertility cults and planting and harvesting rituals. They gathered salt from natural sources, and they collected ash from burnt hickory, animal bones, and certain mosses. They exploited the buffalo for food and by-products.
It is known that Hernando de Soto visited these people in 1540. By...
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