Abenaki Life

Title: Abenaki Life
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Abenaki Life
The Abenaki placed their villages near large water sources. The villages were made up of cornfields, cemeteries, family residencesand specialized buildings and spaces (the main area), and special huts andcamps. Groups of trails connected thedifferent parts of the village together. TheAbenaki spent some of the year in the main village. Here there were many bark houses with fires inside and holes inthe top for the smoke to come out. Their furniture consisted of woven mats, …showed first 75 words of 517 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 517 total…Abenaki. The families of the dead cared forthem. There were burial plots andplaces to hold the dead when the ground was temporarily frozen. Many of the cemeteries were later robbed forthe jewelry buried in them. Theagricultural fields were often located along streams. Specific members of a family tended to the fields. The soil was rotated to maintainfertility. There is not much knownabout the rock chambers. They may havebeen root cellars, Celtic temples, or astronomical observatories.

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