The Eastern Woodland Native Americans Chapter 2- lesson 1

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The Eastern Woodland Native AmericansChapter 2-
lesson 1

• SS textbook pgs. 76-80

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• A tribe is a group of ____________ bound together
  under a single ________________.
• Many different tribes lived in this region, but
  they all had similar _________________, that used
  the __________________ of their environment.
• What is a resource?

families
leadership
cultures
resources
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• Living in the Woodlands
• Thick forests offered endless supplies of
  _____________________.
• People hunted animals that were plentiful in the
  area deer, bear, elk, and beaver for food and
  used their ________and ___________ for clothes.
• They used the lakes, rivers, and streams for
  ____________ and ____________.
• They grew crops such as ___________,
  ____________, and _______________.

wood
skin
fur
water
fish
corn
beans
squash
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The Iroquois

• The Iroquois lived in the ______________________
  part of the Eastern Woodlands.
• They were among the most powerful tribes of the
  region.
• The Iroquois were not ________ tribe, but a group
  of _______________tribes that lived near each
  other and spoken similar ______________________.

northeastern
one
five
languages
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• For many years, the tribes that made up the
  Iroquois fought with each other. The fights
  usually were started over ______________.
• Finally after many battles with each other, one
  tribe chief, _____________, decided to go to the
  other tribal chiefs to ask for peace. The other
  chiefs were tired of fighting too, so they
  decided to work together in what became the
  ____________ _____________.
• A league is an __________________ that people
  form which ______________ them for a particular
  purpose.

land
Hiawatha
Iroquois League
organization
unites
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• The five tribes sent 50 representatives, all men,
  to a ____________ _____________. The council made
  decisions for all of the League members. Each
  member had only one vote. All of the members had
  to agree before a decision was made. (This is
  similar to how our government works today.)
• The older women of the tribes could
  _______________ or __________________ the
  representatives, but could not be a
  representative herself.

Great Council
choose
remove
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• The Iroquois lived in _________________. Which
  were long wooden houses where several Iroquois
  families lived together. They could be as long as
  half of a football field!
• One Iroquois village could have as many as
  ________________ longhouses.

longhouses
150
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• Iroquois used trees to make ___________. They
  used needles made from __________ to sew bark
  together for the canoe. They used __________
  ______ to make the canoes watertight.

canoes
bone
tree
gum
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Using the woodlands
deer

• Men hunted for _________________. They used the
  animals hides for _________________ and the meat
  for food.
• Women tanned the hides and sewed them into
  ________________ and pants. They cleared trees to
  make fields for crops.
• They also gathered _____________ for maple syrup.
  

clothing
shirts
sap
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Iroquois Beliefs and Customs

• The Iroquois felt a deep spiritual connection to
  __________________, ________________, and other
  resources around them.
• When an Iroquois hunter killed a deer, he knelt
  beside it and spoke to it. He __________________it
  for the food and clothing it would provide for
  his family.
• During harvest time the Iroquois gave
  ___________________ for their crops.

trees
the animals
thanked
thanks