Haudenosaunee

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

What did the Haudenosaunee wear?

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

The Haudenosaunee Tribe

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

Clan Rules and Government

Clothing

Community Life

Longhouses - Haudenosaunee Homes

Where did the Haudenosaunee live?

• 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.

The Haudenosaunee lived in longhouses.

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Longhouses Overall - Three Native Nations

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

Longhouses - Families

• 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.

Longhouses - Inside

Longhouses - Outside

Women's Roles - Community

• 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

Community Life

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• 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's Roles

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

Women's Roles- Food

Communicating

Three Native Nations - Hide pants p. 7

Men's clothes

Women's clothes

Everyone wore deerskin moccasins.

• Deerskin dresses
• Deerskin long shirts

Deerskin clothing

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Clothing was decorated.

• wooden beads
• shell beads
• painted quills
• feathers

• Deerskin hide leggings
• Deerskin long shirts
• Breech cloths

Shoes

Picture from Three Native Nations p5

Haudenosaunee Rules and Government

• Beaded belts
• Told a story
• Sign of peace

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

Clan Rules and Government

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Haudenosaunee Beliefs

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

• Religious Meetings happened in longhouses.

Villages

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

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