Government
This is the type of government the native people had when they worked together with multiple nations.
What is a confederacy?
This is the name that Indigenous nations called North America.
What is Turtle Island?
This was a tool used for hunting.
What is a bow and arrow?
This is the mode of transportation that Indigenous people used on the rivers and water.
What is a canoe?
This founding document of the United States was based on the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace.
What is the US Constitution?
This is the name of the original Indigenous group that lived in what we now call Brooklyn.
What are the Lenape?
This is the name of the Haudenosaunee Creation Story.
What is the Sky Woman?
These are some Haudenosaunee sports.
What are lacrosse, running, snake, and dish game?
These aquatic creatures were caught offshore by the Lenape.
What are fish, oysters, and lobsters?
What are moose, caribou, raccoon, opossum, chipmunk, chigger, couger, and jaguar?
This is a type of government ruled predominantly by women.
What is a matriarchy?
This was used as currency in Haudenosaunee tradition and was made from shells.
What is wampum?
This was used to make clothing for Haudenosaunee people.
What is animal hide?
These were the most commonly hunted birds (name 3 of the 6 for full credit).
What are blackbirds, grey geese, turkeys, partridges, doves, and quails?
This popular sport originated in the Haudenosaunee culture.
What is lacrosse?
This is the founding law of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
What is the Great Law of Peace?
This festival is held every spring to celebrate a tasty spring crop.
What is the Strawberry Festival?
This is what the Haudenosaunee used to make dolls.
What are corn husks?
These are a type of footwear worn by Indigenous people in New York winters.
What are snowshoes?
The Mohawk people got this name because they are skilled ironworkers who helped build many NYC skyscrapers.
Who are the Skywalkers?
What are Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk?
This man was called the Peacemaker and helped form the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
Who was Hiawatha?
These are the types of housing that the Haudenosaunee mostly built.
What are longhouses?
These are the main crops that grew together called The Three Sisters.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
These two clay methods are still used in ceramics now.
What are coiled and pinched pot making?