Iroquois
The type of fish the Iroquois caught
What is fresh water fish?
The type of fish caught by these Native Americans
What is salt water fish?
The name of the new Iroquois government
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
The leader of each Iroquois clan
What is the Clan Mother?
The Three Sisters
What are corn, beans, and squash?
The type of house the Iroquois lived in
What is a longhouse?
The type of house the Algonquian lived in
What is a wigwam or a longhouse?
The summertime meeting where topics like peace, war and trade were discussed.
What is the Grand Council?
Each tribe was separated into groups, usually named after an animal.
What are clans?
What clans are named after
(Hint: they are found in nature)
What are animals?
The reason a new government was formed
What is to stop the fighting/to bring peace?
This tribe lived around the area we live in now.
Who were the Lenne Lenape?
The Iroquois Confederacy was compared to this because it was similar to many fireside families working together under one roof
What is a longhouse?
A main job of the Native American men
What is hunting?
Typical material of Native American clothing
What is deerskin?
The names of the 6 Iroquois nations
What are Oneida, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Mohawk, and Tuscarora?
This was used for ceremonies and trade
What is wampum?
The chiefs of the clans
Who are the Sachems?
(The sachems are chosen by the Clan Mothers.)
Two main jobs of the Native American women
What is the planting and the cooking?
Found in on Earth, what the Native Americans used for all of their needs
What are natural resources?
The part of New York State that this group lived in
What is Northern and Central New York?
The part of NYS where the Algonquian lived
What is Southern New York/along Hudson River and Long Island?
The number of Sachems that go to the Grand Council
What is fifty?
What the Algonquian tribes are connected by
What is a common language?
In order for a decision to be made, the entire grand council had to do this.
What is agree?