Who Are the Iroquois?

Name______#3 The Iroquois

Could you have survived in the wilderness 400 years ago? Find out about the daily life of the Iroquois as you become a modern day hunter, hunting in Cyberspace instead of with a bow and arrow. When you are finished with the hunt, be ready to tell why the Iroquois were so dependent on nature. Who are the Iroquois? http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/northamerica/before1500/history/iroquois.htm

1. What did the Iroquois call themselves?

2. What did it mean?

3. In what area of the present United States did they live?

4. Write the names of the 6 tribes?

How did the tribes get their names? http://www.tolatsga.org/iro.html

5. What were the nicknames of the Seneca, Onondaga, and Mohawk tribes?

6. Why do you think they were they called that? http://www.carnegiemnh.org/online/indians/iroquois/animals.html

7. What were the main clan animals?

Iroquois villages and homes http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/IroquoisVillage/constructionone.html (click on Longhouses)

8. What was a Long House?

9. What is an extended family? 10. How do we know about Iroquois Long Houses?

11. Describe the interior of a Long House? http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/IroquoisVillage/villageone.html

12. Why were the Iroquois village built on a hill or plateau and near the water?

Iroquois Culture

http://www.everyculture.com/North-America/Iroquois-Religion-and-Expressive-Culture.html

13. Name the different Iroquois festivals. Why do you think their celebrations were held around the change of season or a harvest?

14. What was the False Face Society? http://www.carnegiemnh.org/online/indians/iroquois/peace.html

15. What was wampum? What uses did wampum serve? http://www.carnegiemnh.org/online/indians/iroquois/sisters.html

16. What three crops did the Iroquois consider the three sisters? Identify all the uses of corn? http://www.carnegiemnh.org/online/indians/iroquois/women.html

17. Who picked the council members or chiefs in the Iroquois tribe?

Enduring Understanding

Use what you have learned about the Iroquois to answer the following question. Why were the tribes of the Iroquois Nation so dependent on nature?