Ridge: Native American Vocabulary

two or more longhouse families

• clan mother

• clan

• wampum

• Iroquois

North American Indian people that lived in downstate New York

• Confederacy

• Iroquois

• Sachem

• Algonquians

shell money used by the Algonquians

• Iroquois

• wampum

• sachem

• wigwam

the head of a clan

• clan mother

• clan

• sachem

• wampum

the leader of the Algonquian village

• sachem

• longhouse

• clan mother

• wigwam

a political group of Native American groups (Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and Tuscarora) founded in 1570

• Algonquians

• Sachems

• Iroquois

• Iroquois Confederacy

a house built by the Iroquois in which a number of families live

• wigwam

• longhouse

• roundhouse

• clan

North American Indian people who lived in upstate New York

• Iroquois

• Iroquois Confederacy

• Sachem

• Algonquian

a group of people who join together to help each other-

a league of persons, groups, or states

• wampum

• longhouse

• confederacy

• Iroquois Confederacy

a house built for the Algonquians for one family

• apartment

• wigwam

• longhouse

• house