US Quiz 1 - Indigenous American Peoples

The actual name for the Iroquois people is

• Algonquins

• Cherokee

• Seminoles

• Haudenosaunee

The term Haudenosaunee means

• cave dwellers

• wind talkers

• people of the longhouse

• people of the pueblo

Which one of the following people or group helped Deganawida ( the peacemaker) come up with the idea to form the Iroquois Confederacy?

• witch doctors

• Hiawatha

• 3 sisters

• Great Spirit

The primary reason the Iroquois formed a confederacy was to

• improve trade

• hunt more efficiently

• promote peace

• improve travel

Which task was completed by the clan mothers?

• Hunting

• Warfare

• Fishing

• Electing chiefs

Northeastern tribes practiced _______________ kinship, with inheritance passed through the mother’s line

• Unilateral

• Matrilineal

• Patriarchal

Many Great Basin tribes lived in tipis to
allow for ____________ life

• Holistic

• Democratic

• Nomadic

The tribes of the ______________ relied on hunting of salmon, otters, seals and whales

• Northwest Coast

• Great Plains

• Southeast

Southeastern tribes included the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Natchez, & _____________.

• Cayuga

• Puebloans

• Seminole

Iroquois lived in large multifamily ______________.

• Cliffside palaces

• Tipis

• Longhouses