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| The Iroquois |
| An internet hunt by Nancy Riggs Candor Elementary School Candor, New York |
| 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 Indians of the Northeast, (click on Sovereign People ) 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 (Look at the top of this page) 5. In the Iroquois culture, everyone belongs to the clan of his ______________? (click on In The Forest) 6. What were the three main clan animals?(click on clan animal) |
 From an illustration by Ronald Himler |
| Iroquois villages and homes
Go to Explore theVillage and click on each question found there to find the following answers 7. What is a longhouse? 8. Why were the homes called longhouses? 9. Why were villages built on plateaus? 10. What is a palisade? 11. Why were villages built near water? Go to About
the
Longhouse to answer
the questions below. 14. How many families lived in a longhouse? 15. Describe how a longhouse was made. 16. Describe what a longhouse looked like on the inside. |
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| Food Use the Eastern Woodland Indians site you opened above to answer the questions below. 17. How did the Iroquois get their food? 18. What were the Three Sisters? Click on the highlighted word to find the answer to this question. 19. How many deer (click on In the Forest) did each family need for one week? |
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| Clothing Use the Eastern Woodland Indians site you opened above to answer the questions below. 20. What did the men wear in winter? 21. What did the men wear in summer? 22. What did the women wear in winter? 23. What did the women wear in summer? 24. What did the children wear in summer? Go to Headdress and answer the questions below 25. What was the Seneca (and other Iroquois) headdress called? 26. What does that mean? 27. What kind of feather is the one that stands up? 28. What kind of feathers were the others? 29. What did the Onondaga headdress look like? (Look at the top of this page) |
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| Wampum Go to Eastern Woodland Indians to answer the questions below. 30. What two things did the Iroquois use wampum belts for? 31. What were wampum belts made from? 32. What are the colors of the shells? |
 of Oren Lyons by Kanatiyosh |
| Medicine Click on False Face Society Mask , scroll to the words False Face Masks, and answer the questions below 33. What did the False Face Society do for an injured or ill Iroquois? 34. From what were the False Face Masks made ? 35. How were the masks made? |
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| Festivals Click on Festivals, scroll to the word Festivals, and answer the questions 36. How many festivals were held each year? 37. What are the names of the festivals? 38. Why are the festivals held? |
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| The Big Question 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? |
| ***Extra
A Virtual Tour Take a virtual tour of what it was like in the EasternWoodlands where the Iroquois lived in the year 1550. You can find out how they made their tools, how they took a bath, more games they played, how they learned to shoot their arrows, and many more things. Visit as many areas as you wish just by clicking on the links on the Virtual Tour of the Eastern Woodlands . Have Fun! |
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| Last updated 6/16/10 |
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