The League/ Government
What is the Haudenosaunee Constitution called?
The Great Law of Peace
The clans were named after ______.
What could be found down the center of the longhouse?
An aisle with fire, smokeholes in roof
The word Haudenosaunee means __________.
People of the Longhouse
The Haudenosaunee wore shoes called moccasins, which were made of _________.
Leather
When the League began, the names of the three people who spread the message of peace were Deganawidah, Jigonsasee, and ___________
Hiawatha
Your fireside family consisted of __________.
parents, brothers, sisters
What was stockade?
Logs that surrounded a longhouse village and overlapped so that enemies or animals could not find the entrance.
Why do you only tell stories in the winter in a Haudenosaunee village?
The Haudenosaunee said that everyone, including animals, would stop working to hear a good story. If you did this in the summer, you wouldn’t have enough food for winter.
The Iroquois trail is a path that ran across which state?
New York
What was one difference between European and Haudenosaunee governments?
Chiefs were not like kings, their job was to serve, not rule.
Who are the three sisters?
Why did the Haudenosaunee move their whole village every 20 years or so?
To replenish resources.
A Haudenosaunee person probably had more than one ________ in their life, one at birth, one as a teenager, and one as an adult.
Name
Tekwaarathon was the ancestor of which game that is still played today?
lacrosse
What is the name of the nation that joined and changed the League from five nations to six nations?
Tuscarora
The __________ could remove a council member who was not fulfilling his responsibilities to the community.
Give one example of how the Haudenosaunee used the whole animal after they hunted it.
Food, skins for clothing and bedding, sinews for string, bones for tools, brains for tanning
What do the Haudenosaunee use at Council meetings to help them speak and keep records of treaties?
Wampum belts
The Haudenosaunee based their calendar on the 13 month cycle of __________.
the moon
Who were the Keepers of the Council Fire? Which tribe?
Onandaga
Name one of the responsibilities of the clan mother.
Giving names, choosing chiefs, removing chiefs, setting dates for festivals
Name three things the Haudenosauneee used corn for.
Beads, decorations, mats, shoes, baskets, kindling, masks, dolls, bandages, tubes for medicine, food, medicine
Haudenosaunee “books” weren’t read. They were memorized and told.
All ______ council members had to come to an agreement before the end of a council meeting. (answer is a number)
50