If You Lived With The Iroquois

Chapters

• 1 Introduction p 6
• 2 Which nations made up the Iroquois league? P8
• 3 What was the Iroquois trail? P10
• 4 Did the Iroquois have a written language? P11
• 5 Did everyone speak the same language? P13
• 6 What was wampum? P14
• 7 What other ways was wampum used? P15
• 8 Where would you live? P16
• 9 What was a longhouse? P18
• 10 What did the inside of a longhouse look like? P19
• 11 Where would you bathe? P21
• 12 Would you live in the same village your whole life? P22
• 13 Who was your family? P23
• 14 What was your longhouse family? P 24
• 15 What were the clans? P25
• 16 When did babies get their names? P26
• 17 What kinds of food would you eat? P28
• 18 Where did you get meat and fish? P 29
• 19 How many ways would you use corn? P 30
• 20 Would you eat meals with your family? P31
• 21 Did each family own the land it farmed? P 32
• 22 What kind of clothing would you wear? P33
• 23 How would you prepare skins for clothing? P34
• 24 What kinds of shoes would you wear? P36
• 25 What shoes were good in winter? P37
• 26 How would you wear your hair? P38
• 27 How were you punished if you did something wrong? P39
• 28 How were grown-ups punished for committing crimes? P40
• 29 Would you go to a doctor when you got sick? P41
• 30 How would you know the time or date if you did not have a clock or a calendar? P44
• 31 Would you go to school? P46
• 32 Who were your teachers? P47
• 33 What kind of work did people do? P48
• 34 What games would you play? P 51
• 35 Would you play games of chance? P 53
• 36 Were there special wintertime games? P54
• 37 What were the traditional religious beliefs? P55
• 38 Did everyone practice the same religion? P57
• 39 How did the Iroquois believe the world began? P 57
• 40 Were there special holiday festivals? P60
• 41 When was the league of the Iroquois founded? P65
• 42 How did the league begin? P66
• 43 What is the Great Law of Peace? P69
• 44 How was the government set up? P71
• 45 Were there special rules of behavior at the council meetings? P74
• 46 Who were the members of the League council? P75
• 47 How did you become a council chief? P76
• 48 What was the Condolence Ceremony? P77
• 49 Was there a special way the Iroquois ended their stories? P 79
• 50 Effect of Iroquois League on US Government p 80