When did the native Americans use canoes?

Answer 1

which native American used the caoe

Answer 2

Many tribes of native Americans never used canoes because their environment did not permit their use. On the coasts, along major waterways and in areas with many lakes canoes of many kinds were used for fishing, hunting and transport, as well as for carrying warriors swiftly and silently to attack enemies.

Some canoes were simple dugouts from tree trunks; others were frames of wood covered in sheets of elm or birch bark; in the area that became Southern California the Coast Chumash made canoes of planks (unique in North America); the Haida, Tlingit and Kwakiutl (and their neighbours) carved and painted huge war canoes from tree trunks - some over 60 feet long.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Native American canoes were made in pre-history times, meaning there is no date you can assign to the use of the item.