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These three crops were known as The Three Sisters.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
They grow on vines, climb up other plants, and fertilize the soil.
What are beans?
This crop provides support for other plants to grow.
What is corn?
This crop shades the soil and helps to keep weeds from growing.
What is squash?
Trees were chopped down as the first step in this process.
What is the planting of crops?
This is where the first people to live in North America arrived from.
What is Asia?
The story that the Haudenosaunee tell to explain how the land was created.
What is the creation story?
The Haudenosaunee lived on more land during this time.
What is the past (or the 1400s)?
These are the houses that the Haudenosaunee lived in.
What are longhouses?
They did not believe in owning or paying for the land that you live on.
Who are the Haudenosaunee or Native Americans?
These are made of shells and used to record important events.
What are wampum belts?
These are agreements that were often made to promise peace.
What are treaties?
These are objects from the past that give us information about people who lived at that time.
What are artifacts?
This is something that is handed down through generations that is done the same way over and over again.
What is a tradition?
These are meetings that tribes held to make important decisions.
What are councils?
This is a game that originated with the Native Americans.
What is lacrosse?
These are relatives who lived long ago.
Who are ancestors?
When the original five nations joined together, they formed one of these.
What is a confederacy?
These family groups were usually represented by animal symbols.
What are clans?
In the Haudenosaunee system of leadership or government, these people were responsible for choosing clan leaders.
Who are women?
These are the original five nations.
Who are the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca?
This tribe joined the Haudenosaunee in the 1700s.
Who are the Tuscarora?
These two men brought peace to the Haudenosaunee.
Who are Deganawida and Hiawatha?
This Onondaga chief had snakes growing from his hair and made it difficult for the Haudenosaunee to create peace.
Who is Tadodaho?
These were told to teach important lessons and to pass down history because there was no written language system.
What are legends?
They usually did jobs such as hunting for the Haudenosaunee.
Who are men?
They usually did jobs such as planting crops for the Haudenosaunee.
Who are women?
These are the two main methods of transportation that the Haudenosaunee used.
What are walking and canoeing?
Saying that all Native Americans have large noses and always wear feathers is an example of one of these.
What is a stereotype?
In the past, this was often made of buckskin.
What is Haudenosaunee clothing?
Make your wager
Use the map in front of you to label where each of the original five tribes lived in the 1400s.