First Nations Flashcards
1
Q
What is the Haudenosaunee lifestyle?
A
- known as people of the longhouse
- they lived in longhouses (which can hold up to 20 families
- they moved their longhouses every 20-30 years when the soil would exhaust
- Lived in a Matrilineal society
- Grew the 3 sisters crop
- spoke the iroquingon language
2
Q
What is the Algonquin lifestyle?
A
- focused more on hunting and fishing
- lived in a patrilineal society
- had seven different clans with leaders to represent each one
- these clans each had a role in society
