Chapter 4: Iroquois Confederacy

Question 1

UN (United Nations)

Answer 1

An organization that works for world peace.

Question 2

Haudenosaunee

Answer 2

What the Six Nations called themselves, also known as the Iroquois to French settlers.

Question 3

Peacemaker

Answer 3

One that came into the land and told people to cease abusing each other.

Question 4

What is a longhouse?

Answer 4

Longhouses are what the Iroquois lived in. Each clan was separated into one.

Question 5

Iroquois women roles

Answer 5

Clan mothers, tending to the Three Sisters, raising children, owning property.

Question 6

Iroquois men

Answer 6

Chiefs, hunting and fishing, warfare, and made canoes.

Question 7

Wampum

Answer 7

A belt of beads and strings that hold a message

Question 8

War chiefs

Answer 8

Gathered warriors in war

Question 9

Pine tree chiefs

Answer 9

Showed interest in public affairs, chosen to join the Grand Council by chiefs

Question 10

How many chiefs make up the Grand Council?

Answer 10

50

Question 11

What is the Great Law of Peace?

Answer 11

It’s the constitution for the Iroquois. The very first one was described on the Hiawatha wampum.

Question 12

What does consensus mean?

Answer 12

Consensus is a form of decision making. It’s when everyone agrees on one thing.

Question 13

When did men, women, children, and elders have a say in government?

Answer 13

In the clan meetings.

Question 14

How did the clan mother get her position?

Answer 14

By the G.L.P

Question 15

The Grand Council is what type of democracy?
Who sat on the Grand Council?

Answer 15

Representative and war cheifs

Question 16

What was the Chief’s role as a representative of their nation?

Answer 16

Teachers and spiritual guides who remind people that the Creator wants them to live in peace.

Question 17

Who is the Seventh Generation? How did they affect decisions that were made?

Answer 17

The seventh generation is the generation that the chiefs had to consider. The chiefs knew that their decisions would affect them, therefore encouraging them to think wisely.

Question 18

What symbols do clans have?

Answer 18

Animal symbols

Question 19

What do Wampum belts represent?

Answer 19

Wampum belts represent different meanings and messages.

Question 20

How does the Hiawatha Wampum show the relationship among the nations of the Confederacy?

Answer 20

Each nation has a white square. The Onondaga nation is the Tree of Peace, and the lines connecting them all show their bond.

Question 21

What does it mean when we say that the Iroquois Confederacy was a matrilineal society?

Answer 21

It means that women were highly respected.

Question 22

What did the Iroquois live in?

Answer 22

Longhouses

Question 23

Who grew the crops? What did they grow?

Answer 23

Women grew the crops. They grew corn, beans, and squash. They called them “ Three Sisters “.