Eastern Woodlands
These legends are apart of the early history told by the Iroquois people.
Who is Deganawidah and Hiawatha?
While on the hunt people lived in a house made of poles.
What is a tepee?
The spanish word for village.
What is a Pueblo?
The Kwakiutl lived on this island by the Pacific coast of what is now Canada.
What is Vancouver Island?
Region in North America where the Iroquois lived.
What is the Eastern Woodlands Cultural Region?
This linked the lands of the league.
What is Iroquois Trail?
These are homes people built to live in.
What are lodges?
One of them is built on a mesa.
What is a Oraibi?
A party where you don't bring presents, instead presents are given to you.
What are potlatches?
People in the Woodlands hunted animals that were plentiful in the area.
What are deer,bear,elk and beaver?
An Iroquois building used for shelter.
What is a longhouse?
In the 1500s, these people brought horses.
Who are the Spanish people?
This is what the Hopi live in.
What is villages?
A person people came to when they were not feeling well.
What is a shaman?
Hung from four poles, as cooking pots for stew.
What are the stomachs of buffalos?
This is a organization that people form which unites them for a particular purpose.
What is a league?
People used these animal as a major source of meat.
What is buffalo?
The kwakiutl believed in these beings.
What are kachinas?
Because food was plentiful, the Kwakiutl had plenty of time to create masks, rattles, and serving dishes.
What are beautiful objects?
Some broke free and wandered North.
What are horses?
Polished seashells that were hung on strings or woven onto belts.
What is a wampum?
This is made by lashing two poles.
What is a travois?
Some Hopi live in a town built in the valley below the older Oraibi.
What is New Oraibi?
A carved post with animals or other images representing a person's ancestors, was another way to show wealth.
What is a totem pole?
The Spanish word for village.
What is Pueblo?