Villages & Homes
Where did married men live?
Longhouses
The Mid-Winter Festival celebrated this.
The changing of the seasons.
The Iroquois had this type of society.
Matrilineal
What was the name of the group that several tribes were in?
Iroquois Confederacy or League of Six Nations
Who was in charge of hunting? Farming?
Hunting- Men, Farming- Women
What did wigwams look like?
Rounded top, smaller than longhouses
This festival is like our Thanksgiving.
Thanks to the Maple
Which woman ran the longhouse?
The oldest
The Iroquois Confederacy forbid this between its members.
War/Fighting
Corn, Beans, and Squash were known as this.
The Three Sisters
What was put around most villages for protection?
Stockade Fence
What did shamans do?
Healed the sick.
Who lived in the longhouse?
Large extended families
When voting, the results had to be this.
Unanimous
How was food stored outside of the longhouse?
Buried in clay pots
What was put at the center of the village?
War Post
In the creation myth night is _____ and day is _____.
Night is evil and day is good.
Women could choose and remove who from their position?
Sachems (chiefs)
How many sachems (chiefs) were involved in the Iroquois Confederacy?
50
Why was it an insult to kill something and then not use it?
Plants and animals were sacred, put there to help by the Great Spirit.
What was a sport played by the Iroquois that we still play today?
Lacrosse
This group wore masks and cured the sick.
The False Face Society
Name 3 things that women were in charge of.
Arranging marriages, naming children, farmed, tested young men to see if they were ready for battle, chose which prisoners of war were adopted into the tribe.
Name 4 of the tribes that were in the League of Six Nations.
Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga, Onondaga, Tuscarora
What did men hunt for in the fall? In the spring?
Fall- Bears, Deer, Elk, Rabbit, Wolves
Spring- Fish