The Piqua Shawnee is a tribe that is native to North America and spoke the Algonquian language. As historians and archaeologists have shown, the tribe was located in different parts but they were dominant in Alabama, which was then under the territory or Georgia. Multiple census included towns that were predominantly made up of people from the Piqua Shawnee tribe. They have since spread to different parts of the world but most of the members are still in North America.
Food
The Piqua Shawnee tribe at https://piquashawnee.blogspot.com/ consumed different types of foods depending on the resources that they were able to get in the region they were at any given moment. In the Great Plains, the Piqua Shawnee hunted buffalo, deer, wild turkey, and bear. This was the main diet and would often be supplemented with wild fruits and some vegetables.
The Shawnee tribe from the woodlands often depended on fish and small game such as deer, squirrel, raccoon, and bear. They also ate corn. Squash, and pumpkin. Records and tales also show that beans were available and were taken as part of their everyday meal. Learn more about Shawnee tribes at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tecumseh-Shawnee-chief.
The members of the Shawnee tribe from the Southeast depended on meat from turkey, wild hogs, eagles, rabbits, raccoons, dear, and possums. Their diet also consisted of fruits and vegetables. Other common meals included maize, beans, pumpkins, dried fruit, and nuts.
Weapons
The Shawnee had weapons that they used for hunting as well as protection. They mostly included bows and arrows, hatchet axes, clubs of different sizes, knives, and spears. When the white settlers came about, the Piqua Shawnee were taught how to use guns and they ended up adding the rifle to their weaponry.
Clothing
The Shawnee at www.bhamwiki.com/w/Piqua_Shawnee would wear different kinds of clothing depending on the climate. During warm climates, they would often wear breechcloths while during the cold climates, they wore fringed tunics, leggings, and shirts. They adopted warmer clothing for protection against wind, rain, and snow. Later, they adopted clothing that was worn by the white settlers and this came to happen through trade.
In the end, the most common clothes that they wore included European style trousers and shirts that were made of cotton or calico. Jackets that they wore included frock coats, clothe turbans, and bandana, which was a popular piece of clothing then. They often added feathers around the bandana which easily incorporated them to their traditional clothing.
