Iroquois+(Haudenosaunee)+Dalton

They lived in
 * ** Where did your tribe live?[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Iroquois_5_Nation_Map_c1650.png/320px-Iroquois_5_Nation_Map_c1650.png align="right" caption="Iroquois Five Nations c. 1650" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iroquois_5_Nation_Map_c1650.png"]] **

Ohio,Pennsylvania,New York,and Canada.

The climate is warm in the summer so the people wore light clothing made from animal skins. They lived in long houses made of bark and wooden poles. Haudenosaunees lived in longhouses,a type of house made from wooden poles and tree bark. In the winter they made fires in their houses. The Iroquois got their food by farming, hunting, and fishing. They put fences around their villages with an opening where the ends should meet so they can get out.
 * ** How does climate affect the way your tribe meets their needs for food, clothing, and housing? **

There were a lot of trees that provided wood for homes and cooking fires. They had rivers that they used for fishing. They got their clothes from deerskin. There was good soil they used for farming. How was the land good for farming? **How did your tribe rely on natural resources?** They used maple trees to make maple syrup in early spring. Children would pick berries and save them for winter. There was good soil they used for farming.They used tree bark and wooden poles for their houses.Our tribe used animals for many reasons, after  they killed them they used the skin for clothing and bedding, they ate the meat, and they used the bones for utensils and tools.
 * ** How does geography and landforms affect the way your native American tribe meets their needs for food, clothing ,and housing? **

Women farmed in fields around the village.Men hunted.Part of the crops that were farmed were for council meetings and festivals.The rest was for food that families ate. They had a barter system.They traded wampum for different goods.Wampum was broken shells.They also used wampum to symbolize agreement.
 * ** What kinds of jobs did native American tribes have to help them meet their needs? **
 * Did your tribe have a money or barter system?Describe it.
 * What type of government did your tribe have?How did they handle conflicts? They had a confederation of chiefs from different tribes.Everyone in the council had to be in agreement before they took action.
 * What makes this tribe unique? They had medicine masks with crooked noses,5 tribes united to form a group,and they used wampum. **The Iroquois have many traditions.The most important one the mask that men wore.No two masks were the same,though all of the masks had a crooked nose to honor the great giant.They say that the men who wear the mask have the power to cure any sicknesses.That is because there was a spirit of sickness who could make anyone sick.But then, the giant came and scared the spirit away.They believe that Sky Man dug up a tree and his wife, Sky Woman, fell through the hole from the tree.She couldn't swim,so eagles piled dirt on a turtles back to catch her.That land became North America.**


 * There are many tribes among the Haudenosaunee. They were the...**

** Mohawk, **
Oneida, Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca,
 * and Tuscarora**.

Haudenosaunees lived in longhouses,a type of house made from wooden poles and tree bark.Women wore deerskin blouses and skirts.They sometimes wore leggings made of deer skin.
**Iroquois is pr on ounced ih-ro-koy.**
 * Some people think that the Haudenosaunee league was formed between 1450 and 1600.**


 * The Haudenosaunee fought with their neighbors the Algonquins.**


 * They put fences around their villages with an opening where the ends should meet so they can get out.**