Iroquois Confederacy Equity and fairness
In the Iroquois Confederacy, this is the name for the group of female leaders who had the responsibility and power to select or remove chiefs, ensuring they represented their clans fairly.
What is a clan mother?
True or False: Athenian women were legally permitted to own land and vote in the democracy.
False
This is the title given to the head of the Alberta provincial government.
What is a Premier?
Iroquois men were responsible for providing these two sources of meat for their longhouses.
What are hunting and fishing?
known as the “People of the Longhouse”, this confederacy's traditional constitution, the Great Law of Peace, is believed to have inspired the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Iroquois (or Haudenosaunee) Confederacy?
In Iroquois decision-making, it means all people affected by a choice have an equal voice, rather than just going with the majority.
What is equity / an equal voice?
Male citizens were strictly required to undergo this type of training starting around age 18 to prepare them to defend the city-state.
What is military/combat training?
When the Premier's party wins the most seats in an election, they form this type of government.
What is a majority rule?
Because Iroquois society was matrilineal, children born into the longhouse automatically belonged to this person's clan.
Who is the mother?
The Haudenosaunee governed their league of nations through agreement from all parties rather than by majority rule, a process known as this.
What is consensus?
The council of 50 male leaders who represented the nations and discussed community issues was called this.
What is the Grand Council?
True or False: Athenian women had a major say in choosing the husband they were going to marry.
False
The leader of the party with the second-most seats in the Legislature leads this group, which holds the government accountable.
Created and played exclusively by boys and men, this game was used to build strength, prepare for war, and settle disagreements between clans.
What is lacrosse?
The fifty leaders of the five original nations of the Confederacy met at this primary governing body.
What is the Grand Council?
During council meetings, these two figures would sit right behind the chief to act as advisors and ensure he was representing his people responsibly.
Who is a Faithkeeper and a Clan Mother?
True or False: Poor Athenian women had more physical freedom to leave the house than wealthy women because they often worked in the markets to help support their families.
True
In Alberta's provincial democracy, this acronym stands for the elected official who represents you in the Legislative Assembly.
Answer: What is an MLA? (Member of the Legislative Assembly)?
While men acted as the political leaders and representatives at the council, they could not do this unless they were first approved by the women of their clan.
What is hold the position of chief / become a leader?
These powerful female leaders in Iroquois society had the democratic authority to choose the male chiefs and remove them from power if they violated the Great Law of Peace.
Who are Clan Mothers?
This term requires everyone in the community to listen to each other, think deeply, and agree on a decision, ensuring all voices are heard equally.
What is consensus?
According to Athenian democratic ideals, this was the only class of individuals allowed to hold political office, vote, or serve on a jury.
Who are free male citizens?
This is the capital city where Alberta's MLAs meet to debate and pass laws.
What is Edmonton?
Although Iroquois women had the ultimate political authority, men were the only ones allowed to take on this specific spiritual and athletic duty.
What is the role of a warrior / play lacrosse?
This oral constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy, which established a participatory democracy and a separation of powers, is widely believed to have served as a structural inspiration for the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Great Law of Peace?