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Creation Story
Iroquois Cosmos
Values Orientation
The Power of Plants
Plant Classification
100
The grandmother of the Creator
Who is Sky Woman?
100
Opening address that accompanies all calendrical ceremonies
What is the Thanksgiving Address?
100
This population's worldview is based on hierarchal principles
What is European?
100
The Three Sisters food ("our sustenance") includes corn, squash and this.
What are beans?
100
The majority of the plant kingdom is thought to be this gender.
What is female?
200
The Creator's evil twin was delivered unnaturally through this body part
What is an armpit?
200
The highest position in the Iroquoian cosmos
Who is the Creator?
200
The Iroquois world view stress this, meaning "The process of working together to the same end".
What is cooperation?
200
This plant's oil is used to anoint false face masks.
What is the Sunflower?
200
Pipsissewa and Wintergreen share this kind of relationship due to their close resemblance
What are sisters?
300
The Creator and Grandmother played this game to determine who would control the Earth's resources
What is the Peach Pit game?
300
The "Four Beings" represent the four seasons, and also these
What are the four directions?
300
The Iroquois worldview stresses man's relationship with this.
What is nature?
300
This plant is the symbol of the Iroquois confederacy as a symbol of invulnerability to external forces.
What is the Pine Tree?
300
The "Whipporwill's Shoe" is an example of this method of classification
What is a metaphor?
400
This animal planted Earth on the turtle's back
What is the muskrat?
400
These spirit forces are found in the sky, and function as time markers, heat and light
What are the moon and the sun?
400
The man on the European slide was wearing this kind of single eyeglass.
What is a monocle?
400
This plant is used to make medicine rattles
What is a gourd?
400
These kinds of plants are considered Grandfathers.
What are herbal remedies?
500
On the Creator's second visit, he gave the people 3 new ceremonies: Strawberry, Mulberry, and this
What is the Maple Ceremony?
500
The Iroquois cosmological worldview is based on the relationship of man, supernatural forces, and this.
What is nature?
500
In Iroquoian cosmology, things can often be thought of in terms of these numbers.
What are 2s & 4s?
500
The Sunflower is frequently depicted as this, in traditional Iroquoian artwork.
What is the Tree of Light?
500
The Iroquoian word for this tree means "people pound the wood"
What is the Black Ash?