Iroquois-Hunters And Gatherers: Native Americans In Olden Times

The economies of the Cherokee and Iroquois tribes are similar in many ways. For example, according to Daily Life in Olden Times for Kids Northeast Iroquois Nation Warriors, Weapons, Battle Techniques, Mr. Donn, “The men made many types of weapons. They made bows and arrows out of hickory or ash wood. The tips of the arrows were made out of turtle, antler bone, and deer bone. They were very

A belief is defines a true statement, something that exists, or the trust and faith in someone or something. We all have beliefs and have obtained those believes individually in many different ways and whose to say that belief is right or wrong, or true or false. As with a myth, a traditional story, mostly believed to be a false idea or false believe.

The Iroquois had many interesting religious beliefs that were very important to their society and lifestyle. For example, according to Khaleel Mohammed, their religion was characterized by a monotheistic belief in an all-powerful creator known as the “Great Spirit.” (Mohammed, 24) They also believed in a brother of the Great Spirit, who was the evil minded brother whose specific purpose was to cause evil. (Mohammed, 25) Since they believe in spirits and things that are beyond our world, it would explain why the False Face Society fits into their belief system. The legend of the False Face is that a spirit medicine man, who had healing powers, encountered a stranger who he challenged to move a mountain. The stranger was unable too, but the medicine man did, but in doing so he hit the stranger with the mountain and disfigured

The Iroquois nations, one of the oldest and most prestigious tribes in the history of all Native Americans. In this paper I will be showing why the Iroquois ended up siding with the English through the French and Indian, and Revolutionary wars through factors of colonization. I will also be showing some features of their culture, considering the iroquois are not well known in the western United States, and discussing the fall of the once great tribes. The main reason I 've chosen the Iroquois is because of my own prior knowledge of the Iroquois, and their relationship to lacrosse. I started playing lacrosse my freshman year of highschool. The very first thing I learned, before any stick skills or any basics of the game, was the history of it. Our coach insisted that we knew the history and the culture of the game, and that we respected it. I was intrigued by how interesting the game was. The game was made as a form of war. Lacrosse was sometimes even referred to as “Little brother of war”. It would be called this because injury, even death were common during a lacrosse game. When two tribes had a disagreement, but didn 't feel the need to have a legitimate war, the opposing tribes would send their best warriors to the battlefield and play a lacrosse game. Games would be played to a score of 5-7, but considering how long the fields could be, these games could take hours, days even, however long it took for one of the tribes to win,

1). The reason for the construction of the Iroquois confederacy, or the league of the Iroquois, (Haudenosaunee) was the impeding factor of disunity between the tribes. Hienwatha, a Mohawk Iroquois, lived in Ontario and observed the disunity between the Iroquois tribes. In an attempt to unify the nations, he approached rival tribes and argued the benefits of unification. Initially, his idea is shut down by the elders of each tribe. The changing climate that started to occur, however, increased confrontations between tribes. Hienwatha yet again tries to explain to the Iroquois people about the possibility of peace and is rejected again. He then alludes the nations to a weaved belt of wampum shells which supposedly illustrated the connectedness of the five Iroquois nations. He traveled among the nations, of which all then supported the idea of unity, and was able to form a seemingly impenetrable force.

The Iroquois Creation story, as told by Gregory Railsback, “Two brothers and their Grandmother,” clearly shows a culture focused on good and evil, gender roles, and hierarchy authority. This story comes from Native Americans and was about people living on the sky and were ruled by a chief. The daughter was so sick that she could not be cured. A person had a dream that the only way to cure the chief’s daughter was to dig up the tree. The people brought the chief’s daughter to the tree to be cured. One person was angry that the tree had been digged up, so he pushed the women into the dark hole. While she was falling, light came out. The animals saved the women from the water and put her on the back of the turtle, where then a land was created. The women gave birth to a girl and later, the girl gave birth to twins which caused the girl's death. One of the twins represented evil and the other good. The twins had a battle and the older brother was killed (Railsback).

The Eastern Woodland tribes grew crops. They built wigwams and Longhouses. Wigwams were their most common dwelling. The typical wigwam had an oval framework of poles, bent into dome shapes and was covered with slabs of bark or strips of birch bark sewn together. In the winter they used cattail stalks for the coverings because they added more warmth. They built fires in the center of the wigwam for cooking and

The United States, before it was called “The United States”, was a vast region west of Europe that housed people of previous indigenous ancestors, the Native Americans. Before Europeans arrived to this New World though, the population was said to be around two to ten million. However, after these land-seeking, gold-hungry European explorers and colonists arrived, the population of the Native Americans eventually decreased dramatically. Diseases like smallpox contributed. Back to pre-Columbus times though, Native Americans were spread out all over North America, and there was large diversity between different Native tribes. Most of these tribes were very centered on religion and the spirit world. A lot of them believed in a single creator,

People who spoke the language Athapaskan settled in Alaska and Northwestern Canada in 7000 B.C.E.

Economically, the Iroquois grew corn, beans, squash, and pumpkins. They also hunted, fished and gathered wild berries, which allowed them to not roam from place to place in search of food or fresh grazing lands. They lived in villages of longhouses, which several families related to each other through the female line. The villages were protected by defendable barricades and surrounded by their cultivated fields, (“IROQUOIS: SIX NATION,” para. 3). The Six Nations Iroquois beliefs and religion were to hold a “Feast of the Dead” to send their relatives to the other world, the preparation and ceremony were to bond smaller clans and families together. Another way to identify Iroquois is, they wouldn’t bury all the bones in a central grave mound, (“IROQUOIS: SIX NATION,” para.

Yep they were the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca.They roamed the lands that is now the state of new york.In this book you will learn about… what they lived in, there food, the tools and weapons used by these tribes,there clothes, the roles of men, women, and children.

In the farther west, travelling tribes like Sioux and Cheyenne collected wild foods and hunted buffalo

Prior to the European explorers arriving in North America in the 1500s, Native American peoples developed civilizations that were advanced in many aspects. While exploring the “New World”, explorers found civilizations that were as advanced as that of the Aztec or Mayan empires; these were those of which the Native American tribes developed. Due to this, early Native American tribes were civilized, as well as several other reasons, including: the advanced art styles, tools, and traditions they practiced, the civility and architectural advancements of their towns, and their organization in both geographic location and political development.

The Iroquois were able to get their food from and mixture of hunting, gathering and growing their own food. Over half of their diet was made up of the animals and fish they got hunting and fishing. So it was important for them to live near the rivers and lakes and also have an understanding of the forest. Without those sources of food they might not have survived. But they did grow food to eat and it consisted of maize, beans and squash. They had established a pattern of using a field until it was no longer fertile and would slash and burn the next field. They would follow this pattern until the fields were so far away that they had to move the village so it would be close to the fields again (Oswalt, 2005).

During the 17th and 18th centuries, the Illinois were an Indian tribe situated around the Great Lakes. As with most other Native American tribes, they encountered the French expanders. The French were expanding their territories to the Great Lakes because of fur trading. They traded fur, clothes, jewels, and food with the Illinois. After encountering the Illinois traditions and customs, the French wanted to overpower them and place the tribe under their way of life. A strong Catholic country, the French despised the Illinois’s polygamous and polytheistic lifestyle. In an attempt to convert the tribes to Catholicism, the French sent missionaries to spread the Gospel and teach the faith. They were not met with as much adversity as expected. Illinois Indian women were attracted to Catholicism because of the freedoms the faith gave them from their everyday lives and the strong influence of a prominent woman from within the tribe.