Life with the Iroquois
by: Arieyonnah, Renee, & Antonio
Life with the Iroquois
FOOD
Food The Iroquois eat wild nuts, fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, & eggs. If meat was scarce they eat wild foods.
Our foods are different because they eat wild foods our foods are the same because they eat meat, fruits, and vegetables like we do.
The 3 Sisters
Arts and Crafts(Antonio) The Iroquois made baskets, toys, & beaded necklaces. The Iroquois made their own beads for the necklaces and used string to put it on. They do the same things and child would do, play with each other they like to go hunting & fishing kid have cornhusk dolls lacrosse was also a popular sport.
Arts and Crafts
Transportation Iroquois traveled by foot. But when it was warmer they used dugout canoes.They also used wild dogs to travel faster.
Canoeing on a river
Walking with my family
Longhouses
Shelter They lived in a longhouse. It’s called that because they were longer than they were wide. The longhouse were made out of elk bark & animal skin in a half cylinder shape. They stored all of there food & clothes in the longhouse. Elm bark & animal skin was used to make the houses. The longhouses were made to give the Iroquois a home to stay in & safety.
Shelter Longhouses
Location
New York
Location Iroquois originally lived near Lake Ontario and along Mohawk River in New York State. Around 1600, five tribes-the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, the Cayugas, and the Senecas-banded together to form a confederacy. A sixth tribe, the Tuscaroras, joined in 1722.
Interesting Fact
Interesting Fact The Iroquois or Haudenosaunee were historically powerful and important northeast Native American confederacy. They were known during the colonial years to the French as the “Iroquois League,” and later as the “Iroquois Confederacy.” The Iroquois have absorbed many other peoples into their cultures as a result of warfare,adoption of captives, and by offering shelter to displaced peoples.
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