Native American Vocab

an object made from people who lived in the past

• artifact

• lacrosse

• culture

• wampum

a person in the family born earlier than a grandparent

• artifact

• clan

• ancestor

• clan mother

a group of Native American families who share the same ancestor

• hertiage

• clan

• nomads

• League of 6 Nations

the head of a clan

• Haudenosaunee

• nomads

• tradition

• clan mother

a group of people who meet to talk and make decisions

• clan mother

• League of 6 Nations

• council

• Haudenosaunee

the way of life of a group of people including food, clothing, language & shelter

• culture

• sachem

• nomads

• artifact

the name of the Iroquois Confederacy call themselves, means "people of the longhouse"

• League of 6 Nations

• Haudenosaunee

• nomads

• sachem

shared history and traditions of a group of people

• artifact

• culture

• rawhide

• hertiage

people who find food by hunting animals or gathering plants from the forest

• hunter-gatherers

• nomads

• tradition

• longhouse

a union of 5 and later 6 Iroquois groups that came together (Seneca, Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga & later on the Tuscarora)

• Haudenosaunee

• League of 6 Nations

• The Three Sisters

• nomads