Quick+Facts

How did agriculture change the Arkansas way of life? It cahnged the way of life by making it where they could stay and one place. Gave them a more secure food supply. Made it where tribal governments had more power.

Name a few things the Indian tribes traded? They traded fur, cloth, rocks, minerals, and salt to other tribes. They traded colected bear oil, skins and fur, knives, hatchets, hoes, plows, animal traps, cloth, glass, metal, cooking pots, bells, and beads.

The introduction of corn had good and bad effects. What were they? Good effects- Babies could switch from milk at a much earlier stage and ber fed a sort of corn gruel as a baby food.

Bad effects- People started to suffer from tooth decay because of the starch.

Good effects- They could us the corn to help feed animals and they could store it year round.

Bad effects- Corn contains more starch than the earlier diet of the indians when they started to eat the corn the indians came opon to suffer from tooth decay and other nutrition problems.

=**What were the three historic Indian tribes of Arkansas? How were they alike? How were they different?**=
 * The first Indians were the Quapaw, the Caddo, and the Osage.**


 * They were alike- Both Quapaw and the Osage constructed bark covered, pole framed long houses, each occupied by related males and ther families.**

Different- Caddo had tall and circular structures.


 * Where did the first people to live in what is now Arkansas come from? How did they survive?**
 * They came from Russia over a land bridge. They survived by hunting large game and used them for food and clothing.**
 * The three indian tribes of Arkansas were the Quapaw, Caddo, and the Osage.**
 * They are alike because the Quapaw and the Ossage spoke the same language.**
 * They are different because**