Food and health
What crops make up the "three Sisters"?
Corn, Beans and Squash
What did the Iroquois make most of their clothing from?
Deer Skin
The type of house the Iroquois lived in?
The longhouse
6 tribes decided to work together as a team.
Cayuga, Onieda, Onondaga, Mohawk, Seneca, and Tuscarora
What materials did they make their tools from?
animals and natural resources (rocks)
What animals did the Iroquois hunt?
Deer, Bear, Beaver, rabbits, Elk, Etc...
What is the name of the shoe worn by the Iroquois?
Moccasins
What was the structure of the longhouse made out of?
Saplings..... Young trees
Who was in charge of voting the representative for the tribes?
Clan mothers. Women.
What did hunters use to hunt?
Bow and arrows, Knives and axes
Who was responsible for cooking the food in the Iroquois nation?
The women
True or false: Iroquois men and women both wore Deerskin?
True.
How long were the longhouses?
30 feet to several hundred feet long
What is the name of the most popular game played by the Iroquois?
Lacrosse. They have several different names for the game including Teh hon tsi kwaks eks, Guh jee gwah ai, and Ga lahs.
What is the name of the stone tool used for woodworking?
Stone Adzes
Who was responsible for hunting and fishing?
The men
What did the Iroquois wear around their waists?
Wampum bead belts
True or false, cooking was done outside the longhouse only.
false, there were cooking fires in the longhouse.
What are the 5 ORIGINAL tribes that make up the Iroquois Confederacy?
Cayuga, Mohawk, Onieda, Onondaga, and Seneca
What did they use to tan the deer skin so that it wouldn't rot?
Deer brains!
What did the Iroquois do if they broke a bone?
A surgeon would help them.
True or false: both men and women wore skirts?
True! women wore skirts and men wore kilts (male skirts)
How many families lived in one long house?
upt to 20 individual families lived in each longhouse.
The Iroquois called themselves Hodenosaunee, which means “people of the longhouse.”
Blowguns and darts were made out of wood and hollow reeds, what were they used for?
Hunting birds