Native American Vocabulary

North American Indian people that lived in downstate New York

• Iroquois

• Algonquians

North American Indian people that lived in upstate New York

• Iroquois

• Algonquians

A group of people who join together to help each other; a league of persons, groups, or states

• sachem

• clan

• tribe

• confederacy

Shell money used by the Algonquians

• wigwam

• longhouse

• wampum

• sachem

Two or more longhouse families

• clan

• clan mother

• wampum

• confederacy

The head of the clan

• sachem

• wigwam

• clan mother

• wampum

A house built by the Algonquians for one family

• longhouse

• sachem

• wampum

• wigwam

A house built by the Iroquois in which a number of families lived in

• wigwam

• clan

• longhouse

• wampum

The leader of the Algonquian village

• sachem

• clan mother

• confederacy

• clan

A political group of Native American groups founded around 1570

(Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and Tuscarora)

• Algonquians

• Iroquois Confederacy

• wigwam

• longhouse