The Life of the Iroquois Indians
By. Joshua Blankenship, Maison Chatterton, Brady Nolte
The Life of the Iroquois Indians
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Mrs. Venable Joshua Blankenship, Ma ison Chatterton, Brady Nolte
3/3/16
Iroquois: Location The location of the Iroquois was in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. The land was marshy and rugged with mountains and flatlands and loads of forest. There were some tribes that lived in the Ohio Valley. They had 6 different empires so they knew many languages.
Iroquois: Location They spoke to many neighboring tribes.
Clothing Iroquois
The Iroquois used European clothing but adapted it to their own style. During the summer they wore no shirts and deer skin pants. All year round they wore clothes like wolf skin hoods and deer skin capes. Men and Women wore jewelry made from bones, beads, skin, and string, which was made from plants. They also had other styles from many different tribes because they had 6 empires all together. They wore short sleeves for ceremonies and they wore feathered hats. They had feathers on there ceremonial weapons too.
Iroquois: Shelter
The Iroquois Indians Lived in Long Houses. The houses was built out of bark and animal skin. The house would have wood frames, and had no windows, only two doors at either side.
Iroquois: Shelter
Each Iroquois longhouse was designed so as many as twenty families or more could live in it. People who were similar to each other would stay in a single Longhouse. Families would stay to their own booth, around their own firplace.
Iroquois: Shelter
The long houses got their name from sometimes being over 100 feet long! Some archeologist's say that inside the longhouses Didn’t have many places for natural light to come in. This resulted in it being very dark in the long houses.
Iroquois: Transportation
The Iroquois walked and used canoes made out of wood. They would Mainly Stay in one place and didn’t move much. And Because they had permanent houses and they didn’t move location very often, they used there feet more than anything.
Iroquois: Transportation At first they used Dog Packs But then when the English Colonists came they retired the wolf packs and used horses instead. One Person crossed the great lakes in a stone canoe and put forth his vision of peace.
Iroquois: diet
What they ate was corn, beans, squash, berries. They prepared it by cooking it in a fire. They also ate it raw as it can be. They put seasonings on it/other stuff on it
They also ate it raw as it can be. They put seasonings on it/other stuff on it
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Squanto was part of this group as well. He was an Iroquois Indian that was taken from his home barely after getting married. The English came for trading but kidnapped some of his people and was used for entertainment. Squanto escaped and went to a monastery where the monks thought he was Lucifer but accepted him and taught him their ways. In the end, the monks helped him go home where he found his tribe dead. After the death of his tribe, settlers came and he made a peace treaty with them. Squanto was a Iroquois Indian. He was also a Big Part in the First Thanksgiving. The Iroquois Tribe was a confederacy of six Native American Nations.
WORKS CITED The Ancestors of the Iroquois, Contributor: Anonymous. Web
http://nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/1219
Anonymous. "First Americans." Iroquois Indians. Kmartin, n.d. Web.