Vocabulary
An object made and used by people in the past
What is an artifact?
The place that the Iroquois men from each clan met to talk about and solve problems
What is a council meeting?
The first people in North America were mammoth hunters from
Where is Asia?
The purpose of storytelling among the Native Americans
What is to teach important lessons?
Five different groups of Native Americans that came together in 1570
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
A group of Native American families who share the same ancestor
What is a clan?
Who are the Iroquois and Algonquian
The Native American building that was built to hold many families
What is a longhouse?
People who did not leave written records lived during this time
What is prehistory?
An Indian chief who was a member of the council that governed the League of Five Nations
What is a sachem?
The Haudenosaunee
Who are the Iroquois, People of the Longhouse?
The most important crops in the Native American gardens were called the Three Sisters
What are corn, beans and squash?
A member of your family who lived before you
What is an ancestor?
A group of people who joined together to help each other
What is a confederacy?
Native American villages often moved in search of ...
What are new hunting grounds and planting soil?
The Confederacy protected the rights of each Iroquois to have ...
What is enough food, clothing, shelter, as well as to speak and worship freely?
Strings or belts made of shells that were used to record important information
What is wampum?
The five Iroquois tribes that joined together to form the Iroquois Confederacy
Who are the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca and later Tuscarara?
The people within the Native American village that were in charge of picking the sachems that attended the Grand Council meeting
Who were the women and clan mothers?
The man who brought the Iroquois tribes together in peace
Who was Hiawatha?