Living
What is a long house?
long thin home, made of small trees and bark, where multiple families live.
What were children's toys made of?
natural resources
What is a creation story?
the story where a culture explains their history and where they started
Define Migration
Moving from one place to another
Who are the Haudenosaunee?
The people of the long house also called the Iroquois
What is a wigwam?
small semi-circular home, made of small trees and bark, where one or two families live.
Who made children's toys?
Children made them for themselves
What is a moral?
The lesson you learn from a story
Define Glacier
A large slow moving mass of ice
What is Algonquian?
it is a language group
What is a palisade?
A wall around a village made of logs stood on end
Why did children play with toys other than for fun?
To learn skills
What is the tree of peace? What does it stand for?
The pine tree the Haudenosaunee dug up and buried their weapons underneath to symbolize peace.
What is the natural environment?
the way the earth is around us, things that come from it
What is the Bering strait?
the space between Alaska and Russia where Native Americans originally migrated to North America
What were the two different types of homes the Algonquian and Haudenosaunee lived in?
Wigwams and long houses
to practice their balance and aim
What is wampum? what did it stand for?
beads made of shells that were sewn into belts. They could be stories or treaties
What is ancestry?
The people in your family who came before you
What does consensus mean?
Governing by agreement
What were the four main parts of any Native American settlement in New England?
longhouses/wigwams, palisades, water source, fields
Why were corn husk dolls an example of how the Haudenosaunee honored nature?
They used natural products and when they grew up and didn't need them they would disintegrate and go back to the earth
What is the Hiawatha belt? What do the boxes and trees on it stand for?
The belt that tells the story of the peacemaker. The boxes are the tribes coming together and the tree is the tree of peace
What are three different ways people trace ancestry? (hint: through men, women, and both)
Matrilineal, patrilineal, cognatic
How did the Haudenosaunee balance men's and women's roles in government?
men ran the government but only clan mothers could appoint them and clan mothers could remove men who were not doing a good job