<h3>What were the characteristics of South Carolina tribes?</h3>
The Cherokee built wattle and dubs with thatched roofs and these was their main form of shelter. They also had two chiefs in each village which was a Red Chief and a White Chief.
The Yamasee people lived along the coast but it was the Catawba that were called the people of the river. All three tribes practiced matrilineal leadership before the Europeans came.
Arctic peoples hunted caribous (reindeers), seals and walruses , while subarctic peoples hunted moose, caribous, hares, musk oxen, bears, elks, waterfowls and fishes.
The people of the artic cultures lived in Igloos, people of the great plains lived in wigwams, the Iroquois League lived in large wooden family homes, the peoples on the southeast lived in houses on stilts and the peoples on the northwest lived on round, large homes made of dirt.
