The Alabama Indians used wood and bark from trees to make arrows, animals for food, and animal hide for clothing and blankets. They also used bones from animals to make weapons and other things like fish hooks. The Alabama Indians ate food pretty similar to us today. They ate berries, nuts, rabbits, bison, deer, fish, birds, and many other things as well.

The Alabama Indians were a settled tribe, this meant that they built small houses and farms to live on. The Alabama Indians did not move from place to place very much. Their homes were woven huts that were plastered and thatched. The homes were about as warm and comfortable as a log cabin which made them nice and toasty.

The Alabama Indians loved to tell stories, sing, dance, do arts and crafts and play games like lacrosse. Girls played with beaded dolls. Boys went hunting or fishing with their fathers and teenage boys played lacrosse with the adult men. The Alabama Indians celebrated the Green Corn Festival which was an annual first fruits and new fire rite. People believed that during this festival, all crimes or wrongdoing was forgiven except for murder. The Alabama Indians told fairy tales but they also told myths, and folktales. The most popular fairy tales were the origin of fire and the winding trail.

The Alabama Indians used to live in Alabama, hence their tribe’s name, but unfortunately they were pushed into Texas which is where most of them live today. The Alabama tribe usually had a chief as the leader who usually took part in things like storytelling, art, music, and traditional medicine.