Iroquois Vocab

Natural surroundings or area in which you live

• Five Nations

• Iroquois

• Environment

• Hiawatha

Five nations are:

• Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, and Mohawk

• Mohawk, wildcats, Oneida, Seneca, Bears

• Seneca, Cayuga, Hiawatha, Confederacy, Wampum

A confederacy is...

• A Native American

• A meeting

• A group of people who join together to help each other

• 3 sisters

Deganawida is...

• Group of people who meet to solve problems

• A council

• The name of how people traveled

• A Native American who traveled to villages, trying to make Iroquois be at peace with each other.

The Council was a group of people who...

• Got together to go hunting

• meet to discuss and solve problems

• Harvested the food from the gardens

• Women who took care of children

Haudenosaunee

• Five Nations

• The council people

• "People of the longhouse"

• Wampum Belt

Male Members of the Grand Council. They were chosen by the women.

• 3 Sisters

• Sachem

• Haudenosaunee

• Hiawatha

The "3 Sisters" are known as

• The 3 women who started the Iroquis

• Girls who lived in the woodlands

• Corn, Beans, and Squash

• Carrots, Oranges, and Peaches

The Native Americans that Lived in the Eastern Woodlands of New York.

• Iroquois

• Algonquin

• Hiawatha

Hiawatha was...

• A prayer said to the creator

• A Member of the Seneca council

• An Onondaga Chief who helped found the Iroquois Confederacy

• A Cayuga Chief