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The Yuchi Tribe
The Yuchi Tribe
Where the Yuchi are originally from:
They originated in Oklahoma and parts of the southeastern United States. During the colinal period they established settlements.. Around the time of 1661 a few Yuchi were living along the Savannah River and in South Carolina but they primarilly resided in Oklahoma, Tennesse and Georgia.
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What food the Yuchi ate:
Their Meals
The women of the Yuchi tribes harvested the crops which commonly consitsted of corn, beans and squash. The men of the tribe went hunting for deer, buffalo and went fishing in the rivers. Their meals often consisted of cornbread, soups and stews. The cooking tended to be simple because there wasn't much for them to use, other foods that they used in their meals were maple syrup, sugar, salt, different nuts, (such as, peanuts, cashews, pine nuts, hickory nuts and acorns), eggs and fruit (which included, strawberries, blueberries, rasberries, chokcherries, wild plums and persimmons).
Their Houses:
The Yuchi lived in villages, the houses in the village were arranged around a centeral square where they often held the gatherings and dances. To protect themselves from attack they would build walls around their villages. To make the houses they would pack clay around a wooden frame.
Housing
The Yuchi Clothing:
The men of the Yuchi tribe were often wore breechlouts while the women often wore wraparound skirts made from dearskin or woven fiber. Everyone wore moccosins on their feet. Shirts were not neccisary in Yuchi culture but durin the winter and colder times men and women both wore a poncho-style mantles.
Clothing
How the Tribe was effected after the Indian Removal Act:
The Indian Removal Act
The Yuchi's that lived in Tennesse at the time got moved to Oklahoma. After the forced removal the Yuchi's established themselves as a distinct group within the Creek Nation of Oklahoma. Some anthropologists theroize that some Yuchi remained in East Tennessee as late at 1918.
Location Today:
Location Today
Some reminate groups moved to Florida where they became apart of the newly formed Seminole Tribe. Today the main reminates of the Yuchi tribe live in the northeastern Oklahoma area, many have enrolled at citizens in the federally recognized Muscogee Creek Nation. Although not all memebers of the tribe have enrolled in that, others have entrolled into the Cherokee Nation or the Absentee Shawnee Nation.
The Yuchi Government:
Government
The Yuchi are not federally recognized by the United States, since they aren't recognized by the federal government they do not have their own form of government or their own reservation and are considered part of the Creek Nation. However the Yuchi have their own identity seperate from the Creeks.