What Indian tribe developed the kayak?

Answer 1

All tribes throughout North, Central and South America who had access to oceans, lakes and extensive river systems made canoes of various kinds. All of the many tribes living along the Amazon, for example, used canoes for transport, for fishing or simply for crossing the rivers.

In North America the tribes along the west coast and east coast made extensive use of canoes, as did those around the Great Lakes. In the eastern woodlands travel by river was much easier than trying to transport goods through the dense forests.

Those tribes that made birchbark canoes (including the Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Naskapi, Cree, Ojibwe and Algonquin) each made the prows and sterns in a different shape that immediately identified the tribe. Mi'kmaq canoes also had a very distinctive hump in the sides, midships, which gave the style the name "humpback".

The Coast Chumash of California made entirely unique boats of planks.

The people of the Great Plains made no canoes because there were not enough waterways - and those that existed flow in the wrong direction for hunters following the migrating herds. In the south west there was a general shortage of water, so very few canoes were needed.

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Answer 2

Native Americans used canoes, or kayaks, to travel. They were called both names, and were typically carved from a single tree.

Answer 3

the Inasiz's

Answer 4

The Inuit tribe built the first kayak

Answer 5

which native American used the caoe