The Iroquois

An Internet Hunt 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? Go to the underlined words to answer the questions below. 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

Iroquois Villages 5. What is a longhouse? 6.  Why were the homes called longhouses? 7.  How long could they be?  8.  Why were villages built near water?  9.  What materials did they use to hold the framework of the longhouses together? Describe. 10.  When did they cut the wood for the longhouses, and why at that time?

Iroquois Villages 11. How many families lived in a longhouse? 12.  Describe how a longhouse was made. 13.  Describe what a longhouse looked like on the inside. 14. What was above the door of each longhouse?

Food 15. How did the Iroquois women get their food? How did the men? 16.  What were the Three Sisters? 17.  How was the hunter able to sneak up on the  deer in order to kill it? 18.  What did they use to sweeten their food? 19.  How many deer did each family need for one week?

Clothing 20. What was the name of the headwear they wore? 21.  What did the men wear in summer? 22. Describe the woman’s overdress? 23. What else did the women wear with the overdress?  

Headdress 24. What was the Seneca headdress called? 25.  What does that mean? 26.  What kind of feather is the one that stands up? 27.  What kind of feathers were the others? 28.  What did the Onondaga headdress look like?

Songs and Dances 29. What direction were all dances done in? 30. What were the jobs of the house keeper? 31. What instruments were used in social dances? 32. How many groups of social dances are there? List them.

Clans 33. A person gets their clan from? 34. Name the sky clans. 35. All six nations have members from which clans? 36. Who appoints the chiefs in the clan? 37. Which Iroquois Nation has the most clans?

Games 38. What is the Iroquois name for lacrosse? 39. Why was lacrosse played? 40. How did someone win in the winter game of snowsnake? 41. How did Iroquois girls spend their time? 42. Tell me one fact that you learned in this activity.