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| What did the Early People of North America travel across from Asia into North America? |
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| the period about 40,000 years ago when the earth was covered in ice |
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| What was the name of the continent where the native peoples came from? |
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| What were the Native Peoples in search of when they came from Asia? |
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| A Native American tribe who were the first to settle in the Hudson River Valley and Long Island |
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| The Native American tribe who arrived after the Algonquian and settled in the Central and Western New York area. |
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| What does Haudenosaunee mean? |
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| The Iroquois called themselves this. It means "People of the Longhouse". |
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| What were the roles of the Iroquois women? |
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| They played a major role in the Iroquois Society and were in charge of planting crops. |
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| These women were the head of each clan |
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| How did the Iroquois get their food? |
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| hunting, fishing, and farming |
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| a group of families who shared the same ancestors |
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| What were the roles of the Iroquois men? |
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| This group was in charge of hunting, fishing, and clearing the land for planting. |
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| another name for the Iroquois League or five tribes who came together to protect the rights of the Iroquois. |
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| What was the name of the house that the Iroquois lived in? |
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| What were the names of the 5 Iroquois tribes in order from west to east? |
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| Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk |
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| This was the sixth tribe who joined the Iroquois around 1722. |
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| What are the three main animals that the clans were named after? |
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| What was the game the Iroquois invented with a stick and a ball? |
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| What are the three major crops the Iroquois planted that were referred to as The Three Sisters? |
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| What was the name of the society who would put on masks to scare away the evil spirits every spring and fall? |
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| What state did the Iroquois and Algonquians settle in? |
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| What were the names of the leaders who convinced the 5 nations to stop fighting and form a confederacy? |
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| What was the name of the rules that showed how the Iroquois Confederacy would work and allow people to live together in peace? |
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| history and stories that are passed on from generation to generation through a tribe's storyteller |
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| a belt of beads strung into a pattern, which was used as a gift, for trade, or to record information |
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| What did Deganawida refer to the Iroquois Confederacy as that stretched across the land of the five tribes? |
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| What was in the center of the longhouse? |
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| Which tribe was located in the center of the Iroquois Confederacy? |
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| This is land set aside by the U.S. government that the Native Americans are forced to live on. |
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| What is the name of the Algonquian house? |
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| What types of resources from nature did the Iroquois use to build their homes? |
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| wood, bark, and animal hides |
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| What was the role of children? |
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| They did not go to school. They learned from their mother and father. |
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