Vocab
Five Iroquois Nations
Early Life of People
Iroquois Life
Archaeologist
100

league

group of people who joined together for a common goal

100

1

Seneca

100

How did the earliest people probably travel to reach North America?

By foot across across the Bering Strait land bridge 

100

wampum made from 

shells

100

how have archaeologists learned about early life in New York?

By studying artifacts such as spear points

200

reservation 

land that is set aside by the United States government for Native Americans to use

200

2

Cayuga

200

What are the customs and history of a group of people called? 

Heritage

200

wampum uses (5)

jewelry, peace treaty, symbol of friendship, record keeping, story telling (5)

200

prehistory definition

time before written records

300

council

group of people who meet to talk and make decisions

300

3

Onondaga

300

What is not an example of how early people of New York used natural resources to meet their needs?

a. they hunted forest animals 

b. they developed written communication

c. they used wood for building homes

d. they fished in streams and rivers

B. they developed written communication 

300

what is a hunter-gatherer?

people who find food bothy by hunting animals and by gathering plants

300

artifact definition

object made by people who lived in the past 

400

sachem

a council member of the Iroqouis league 

400

4

Oneida

400

What is an important way that farming changed the lives of early New Yorkers?

People stayed in one place longer and built villages

400

diet of hunter-gatherer

meat, fish, roots, nuts

400

example of artifact

fossil

500

agriculture

a member of a family who lived in the past 

500

5

Mowhawk

500

names of two large Native American groups who lived in New York

Iroquois and Algonquian

500

Why did the Iroquois call themselves "the people of the longhouse?"

Iroquois families lied in wooden buildings called longhouses

500

what are the three sisters?

corn, beans, squash