The Iroquois

The great majority of Marriages were always monogamous, but polygyny was permitted until recently, and it is estimated that about 10 percent of Navajo men had two or more wives. Residence for newly married couples was ideally uxorilocal, (meaning to reside with a wife's kin). It was also fairly common for couples to move from the wife's family or tribe to the husband's, at some time after their marriage. Both marriage and divorce involve very little formality, and the rate of divorce is fairly high. But the great majority of

Divorce is such a personal and common thing in America. There are so many couples who go through the act of divorce every day. According to Kanewicher and Harris (2014), forty to fifty percent of couples will end in divorce within the first few years of marriage. Divorce is the legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or other competent body. There are many factors that may lead couples into divorce. Some of those factors are, marrying too young, low education levels and overall just lack of preparation (Kanewischer, 2015). Although divorce is common now, it was not like this back in the late 1900’s. Divorce was not allowed and most of the time people did not want to get divorce because of all the time and effort they put into their marriage.

2. Matrilineal : It's a type of native american culture. The clan/villiage your mother is born, then that will be your clan/village. It means that your're following your mother's side of the family.

Anthropology Research Assignment The Iroquois: People of the Longhouse Prepared for: Victor Gulewitsch TA: Cecibel Rodriguez ANTH*1150*02 Prepared By: Ellen Griffin Student ID: 0726506 Date: March 17, 2011 The Iroquois: People of the Longhouse Introduction The Iroquois are considered a branch of North American Indians, also known as Haudenosaunee or the “People of the Longhouse”. The Iroquois have greatly contributed to society through initiating the Iroquois confederacy also called the Iroquois League formed in 1570. The North American confederacy consists of five nations called: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca, which resided in what is now known as Upstate New York. These tribes joined together as the “ 5 civilized

The Iroquois League were Indians who stood together in time of need. They wanted peace and did not believe in fighting one another but fighting for the entire Iroquois League. I found this very unique to say the least the women were the leaders in this league known as clan mothers. Clan mothers were leaders of the long houses which is where the Iroquois League lived. When things started to happen Iroquois League began to change things to save themselves accordingly. When they realized they had something others wanted which was the fur from animals they hunted they changed what they were fighting for. Iroquois League were once fighting for revenge and they begun to fight for other reasons such as land which they used for hunting and furs. The Iroquois League traded furs from animals they hunted for goods from the Europeans. When the diseases came around the Iroquois League brought in more people as their own this was smart and also kept their numbers higher than

Before the arrival of Europeans in the 1600’s, the Five Nations of the Iroquois lived under a constitution that had three main principles, peace, justice, and the health of mind and body. The Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy offered compelling evidence of Native American rich and sophisticated cultures with their well established democratic government with a form of religion and a strong matriarchal system before the advent of Europeans.

Numerous states enacted divorce legislation in the 1780s and 90s. Generally, divorce laws were more liberal in the West than they were throughout the rest of the nation.

The Iroquois people consisted of many different tribes rather than one big group. These groups included the Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Mohawk, Cayuga and the Tuscarora. The Iroquois have occupied the Eastern Woodlands for over 4,000 years. The Iroquois tribes first settled in the Eastern Woodlands located in the Eastern United States. This area had thick forests, rivers, hills, and mountains. One thing the Iroquois were best known for were their longhouses. These longhouses were estimated to be longer than the length of an entire football field. Inside of the longhouse, there is an aisle in the middle and living space on either side. The longhouses were matrilineal, so when a marriage occurred, the family would move into the longhouse of the mother. The Iroquois usually lived in clans, or groups of families.

The Northeast had great forests and many rivers and lakes. The Iroquois is one of the tribe that lived along the St. Lawrance river which is located in what is now known as New York State, so that they had some natural resources such as woods and animals meat. Men taught

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

The Iroquois were a Native American tribe living in the Northeast of the North American continent before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492. The people

how it relates to cultural anthropology, specifically focusing on kinship,ethnicity and race, and social organization. Kinship is how cultures define relationships with people who they think of as family. All

Divorce is a rising social issue in the United States of America, but it is not a new concept. Divorce has been a social issue since at least 1867 when for every 35.9 marriages, one couple were to get a divorce (Huth, 1947). Although divorce is not a new concept, it has become more social acceptance which is raising the divorce rate over the years. Another controversial topic in divorce is when the two people divorcing have a child or children together. Approximately 150,000-200,000 children in the United States of America are affected by divorce yearly (Huth, 1947).