Haudenosaunee

The Haudenosaunee Tribe

Haudenosaunee were also known as the Iroquois and People who make longhouses.

Longhouses - Haudenosaunee Homes

Community Life

How did they communicate?What did they eat? What were their roles?

Where did the Haudenosaunee live?

Clan Rules and Government

Clothing

What were the rules of the village? How did they interact with others?

What did the Haudenosaunee wear?

The Haudenosaunee lived in longhouses.

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Longhouses - Inside

Longhouses - Outside

• Bunks were lined on the walls and fire pits were in the middle.

• Made of wood.
• Covered in animal skin.
• They had a door on each end.
• They had smoke holes in the top.

Longhouses Overall - Three Native Nations

Longhouses - Families

• held many families
• had a common room
• had sleeping areas for families
• had fire pits
• door at each end
• had one clan symbol

• Many families lived together in one house.
• The longhouses were owned by the women of the tribe.
• Each village was made up of long houses.

Community Life

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Women's Roles- Food

Communicating

• planted food
• gathered nuts and fruit
• dried food each fall to keep for the winter
• Planted the Three Sisters, corn, beans and squash

• all spoke versions of the same languages
• they had similar ways of living

Women's Roles - Community

Men's Roles

• Women held society together
• Ohwachira is the name of the family group tied together by one woman.
• The eldest women made the important decisions for family groups.

• Men were hunters.
• Men were warriors and protectors.
• Men hunted bears, beavers, deer, rabbits and moose.

Deerskin clothing

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Shoes

Women's clothes

• Deerskin dresses
• Deerskin long shirts

Everyone wore deerskin moccasins.

Clothing was decorated.

Men's clothes

• Deerskin hide leggings
• Deerskin long shirts
• Breech cloths

• wooden beads
• shell beads
• painted quills
• feathers

Three Native Nations - Hide pants p. 7

Clan Rules and Government

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Haudenosaunee Rules and Government

Wampum

• Tribe worked together
• They had elected leaders in their villages.
• They had council meetings in their villages.

• Beaded belts
• Told a story
• Sign of peace

Picture from Three Native Nations p5

Haudenosaunee Beliefs

Villages

• When a couple got married, they moved into the woman's family longhouse.

• Religious Meetings happened in longhouses.

• Made up of longhouses.
• Elected leaders governed the towns.
• Religious ceremonies brought people together.