The Mississauga people have traditionally secured their needs from the surrounding environment. Hunting, fishing and gathering wild plants were all important activities. A key food, wild rice, grows in shallow water and was gathered in late summer. The harvesters would paddle out to the rice plants and knock the grains into canoes with long wooden sticks. Watch below to learn more about the importance of wild rice.
Mississauga people lived traditionally in single-family dome-shaped or conical birch bark wigwams.