Both the Creek and Cherokee used things from their environment to help them live. All of the resources they used came from their environment. They did not have cars, weapons, tools, and grocery stores like we do today.

• They used trees to build their homes and to hollow out to make canoes.
• They used bones to make arrowheads for the spears and to make fishing hooks.
• They used the earth to plant gardens and grow vegetables to eat.
• They used the animals in the woods for food.
• They used dogs and horses to help them carry things.
• They used animal fur and skins to make clothes and moccasins.
• They used small trees to make bows and spears.
• They used thick grass to make thatched roofs for their homes.
• They used different plants and kinds of dirt to make their colored paint.
• They used foods they grew and animals and fish that they caught for food.

This picture is the inside of a Native American home. It shows some of the resources they used.
You can see the logs that make the frame of the home.
You can see the grass thatch that makes the walls.
You can see the animal skins that made clothes and blankets.
We got this picture from Pics4Learning.