Name that Tribe
Homes and Villages
Food and Farming
Tools, Skills, and Facts
100

This tribe lived near Biscayne Bay, which is Miami today.

Tequesta

100

What material did the Timicua use to make the walls around their villages?

tree trunks

100

What three crops were known as the “Three Sisters”?

corns, beans, and squash

100

What were the Calusa especially skilled at doing on the water?

Canoeing 

200

This tribe lived in northeastern Florida and was the largest group of early Native Americans in Florida.

Timicua

200

What shape were Timicua homes?

Circular

200

Why were the Apalachee able to be successful farmers?

They lived in an area with very fertile soil.

200

What did the Calusa use to make weapons and tools?

fish bones and sea shells

300

This tribe lived in southwestern Florida and built houses on stilts.

Calusa

300

What was special about the way Calusa houses were built?

they were built on stilts

300

What food did the Calusa get much of their food from because they lived near the water?

fish

300

What was an adz used for?

digging

400

This tribe lived between the Ochlockonee River and the Aucilla River.

Apalachee

400

What covered the roofs of Tocobaga homes?

Palms

400

Name two foods that Tequesta women and children collected.

Any two: berries, nuts, oysters, or clams

400

What was an atlatl used for?

hunting

500

This tribe lived in the northern part of Tampa Bay and developed tools called the adz and atlatl.

Tocobaga

500

What did the Tocobaga build mounds for?

Religious buildings and the chief’s home

500

Which tribe was known as both farmers and hunters and grew the Three Sisters?

Timicua

500

“Timicua” was not actually the name of one tribe. What did the word Timicua refer to?

The language spoken by different groups or chiefdoms