Daily Life
This is a Native American house with a frame made of poles and covered with hides or woven reeds. Algonquian and Lenape lived in these houses.
What is a wigwam?
These scientists study artifacts to learn about people long ago.
Who are archaeologists?
Algonquian men or Algonquian women: They cared for children, built wigwams, prepared food, made clothing and most tools.
Who are Algonquian women?
The Lenape made this of seashell and used it in ceremonies, as gifts, and as money.
What is wampum?
Anything from the environment that people can use.
What are natural resources?
This is a long, narrow house that is home to many families. The name Haudenosaunee means people of this house.
What is longhouse?
Tools, spears, arrow heads, picture stones, and wampum belts, are things that tell archaeologists about people long ago. These things are examples of this.
What are artifacts?
Haudenosaunee men or Haudenosaunee women: They brought back food to the village by hunting and fishing. They also chopped down trees to build longhouses and fought wars against enemies.
Who are Haudenosaunee men?
The Lenape used natural resources for food, clothing, and shelter. Some of their food came from farming. To open up land for crops, the Lenape did this.
What is cut down and burn trees?
This is another word for farming.
What is agriculture?
Native Americans used natural resources for many purposes. This Native American group moved from place to place in to find food and resources.
Who are the Algonquians?
Many scientists believe early people arrived from this continent about 20,000 years ago by crossing a land bridge between it and Alaska.
What is Asia?
Lenape men or Lenape women: They made clay pots, wove baskets from grasses and bark, and farmed.
Who are Lenape women?
This male leader and a council of men led each Lenape village.
Who is the sachem?
The way of life that people create for themselves and pass on to their children. Legends and ceremonies were important to Lenape this.
What is culture?
The Haudenosaunee hunted, gathered and fished, but they also depended on farming much of their food. Beans, squash, and this plant were very important plants called the "three sisters".
What is maize?
Five Iroquoian nations joined to form the Haudenosaunee League or this, which is a government in which separate groups of people join together but local leaders still have power.
What is a confederation?
This Native American group spent more time farming than the Algonquians and stored their food for the winter. They did not move from place to place and formed villages with fences surrounding the village.
Who are the Haudenosaunee?
Lenape culture included these, or celebrations during planting and harvesting seasons.
What are ceremonies?
According to this, Algonquian men and women had different roles. It is way of life that has been followed for a long time.
What is tradition?
The Algonquians traded food and furs for copper. They traveled long distances using this.
What is a canoe?
The Algonquians and this Native American group spoke the Algonquian language.
Who are the Lenape?
This Native American group lived in wigwams and longhouses made of poles cut from trees and covered with bark.
Who are the Lenape?
The Lenape culture has many of these, or stories that have been handed down over time. One story is about Earth's creation.
What is a legend?
The Lenape were divided into three groups of these: Munsee, Unami, and Unalachtigo and each of these also had an animal name: wolf, turtle, and wild turkey. It is group of related families.
What is a clan?