Homes & Clothing
Who hunted in the tribe?
Men
How did they pass on stories through generations?
Through oral storytelling around fires.
What area of NY was the Iroquois nation located?
Upstate NY
Where were the Lenape located?
Delaware, NY, and NY.
Did they wear the same clothes in the summer and winter?
No- in the winter they wore more fur and wool and moccasins.
Who gathered in the tribe?
Women
What legend talks about the main plants grown and why they grow togther?
The Three Sisters - Corn, bean, and squash.
What was the name of the group formed by 5 tribes in peace?
The Iroquois Confederacy
Where were the Algonquian located?
Quebec, Canada.
What type of house would one family live in?
Wigwam
Who chose the people in power of the clan/tribe?
Women chose the chief in power.
True or False: Children were taught to respect their elders.
True
Iroquois families lived in what type of home?
Longhouse
What types of homes did the Algonquian lived in?
Wigwams
What type of house would many families live in together?
Longhouse
What roles did children have?
Boys went out and hunted, while girls stayed home and cooked and helped out.
What is one thing that all tribes respected, used, and lived in?
Nature
Another name for Iroquois, the people of the longhouse.
Haudenosaunee
What did both groups trade?
Animal furs
How did they handle the smoke from the fire in the house?
There was a hole at the top to let smoke out?
What is one sports game they played and invented?
Lacrosse
Another word for chief.
Sachem
List the five tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy.
Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and Cayuga.
What was another name for the Lenni-Lenape?
The Delaware Tribe