Iroquois Jeopardy

Where do Iroquois Live?

100

The Iroquois mainly live in this part of the country?

Woodlands/ Great Lakes area?

200

These are the homes that Iroquois live in.

What are longhouses?

300

Two or more longhouse families would make up one of these.

What is a clan?

400

What are longhouses covered in?

What is tree bark?

500

These are the six nations of the Iroquois.

What are the Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Mohawk, Seneca, and the Tuscarora?

Iroquois Tradition

100

These are beads made from shells that had many uses in an Iroquois village.

What is wampum?

200

What is the wampum used for?

What is to tell stories, celebrate ceremonies, and trade?

300

What was on top of the tree of peace?

What is an eagle?

400

Who was the leader of the Onondaga that everyone feared that was said to have snakes for hair?

Who is Atotarho?

500

What is the story of the Great Peacemaker?

Answers vary

Iroquois Government

100

Who chose Iroquois chiefs?

What is the clan mother?

200

This is the Iroquois constitution, or set of rules.

What is the Great Law of Peace?

300

What decision-making model did the Iroquois use?

What is consensus?

400

What did European settlers want from the Iroquois?

What is land?

500

These are the two founders of the Great Law of Peace.

Who are the PeaceMaker and Hiawatha?

Iroquois Life

100

What jobs did Mohawk men work in the 1800s?

What is hunting and fishing?

200

This is the true name of the Iroquois that they called themselves?

What is the Haudenosaunee? 

300

These are the three most important crops the Iroquois used.

What are corn, beans, and squash.

400

What sport did the Iroquois play?

What is lacrosse?

500

What are two important symbols of the Iroquois?

What is the Longhouse, the Tree Of Peace, and the Five arrows.

Iroquois Festivals

100

What festival was celebrated in early Spring when the sap began to flow?

What is the Maple Festival?

200

What festival was celebrated by planting crops and breaking the ground with sharp poles?

What is the Planting Festival.

300

What Festival was celebrated in Winter?

What is Midwinter Festival?

400

What festival was the longest festival?

What is the Midwinter Festival?

500

What tradition for new babies would happen at the Greencorn Festival in August?

What is all babies born in Winter would be given names?