Geography
The most important natural resource for the eastern woodlands people.
What is wood?
The two major language groups of the eastern woodlands peoples.
What is Iroquois and Algonquian?
The political group made up of various Eastern Woodland nations.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
The group at the top of the social structure who inherited their role from their Mother.
Who are chiefs?
The geographical feature the tribes used to build their villages so they could see enemies approaching.
What are hills?
The building that held multiple generations of a families and had great cultural significant for the eastern woodlands peoples.
What are longhouses?
The number of tribes in the Confederacy? (Bonus point if you can name one of them).
What is five? Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and the Seneca.
The name for older families members who were respected and held positions of honor.
Who are elders?
The three local vegetables that made up the "three sisters."
What are corn, beans, and squash?
The tall fences constructed to protect villages.
What are palisades?
The confederacy was created to promote ... (name one of the three).
What is peace, prosperity, and resolution of disputes.
Traditional jobs for men in woodland tribes. (Name one).
Hunting, Fishing, and Fighting.
The modern day state where the Confederacy was founded.
What is New York State?
Examples of inventions created by eastern woodlands peoples out of wood. (Name one).
Homes, canoes, fences, tools, and weapons.
The type of government that the Confederacy was an example of.
What is a democracy?
Traditionally held jobs for women in the eastern woodlands. (Name one).
What are planting/harvesting crops, cooking, making clothing and making moccasins.
Region where the Algonquian nations lived.
The Great Lakes region and Atlantic coast.
What is they helped each other grow, protected each other from pest, were more sustainable when grown together, and yielded more food?
The attributes of a democracy that the Confederacy had. (Name one).
What is each tribe having one vote and the government being controlled by the people?
The name the eastern woodlands people use to refer to themselves. Bonus points if you know what it means.
What is Haudenosaunee or people of the longhouse in English?