Iroquois
The “People of the Longhouse”, also known as the Iroquois people, are actually a group of tribes that is made of up of six tribes in total. Those tribes that make up this league are The Mohawk, The Seneca, The Onondaga, The Cayuga, The Oneida, and lastly The Tuscarora (they played a less important role than the others as they did not join in the league until the 1700s. These tribes were all run basically the same, but each had their individual parts to play in the league (Treuer 32).
The politics for these tribes were run by 50 chiefs would be appointed onto a council by the clan members of each respective tribe (The Tuscarora were not included on this council as they were no one of the original five members of the Iroquois). The distribution of chiefs from each tribe, one would assume, would be an even 10 each. That, however, was not the case. The Mohawk had 9 chiefs, the Seneca had 8, the Onondaga had 14, the Cayuga had 10, and the Oneida had 9 (Treuer 32).
The tribes of the Iroquois was originally located in the areas around New York and Canada. However, they are now not only located there, but also in some parts of Wisconsin and in Oklahoma (Treuer 33). The environment in those areas is mostly woodlands, while the climate varies with the seasons.
The subsistence activities that the Iroquois people took part in were gardening, hunting, …show more content…
They were a people who believed in a single partner marriage (after their religious revival described in the next paragraph), also known as monogamous marriage (Treuer 33). Now, as with marriage in every society, there were ones that did not work out in the end and had to be broken apart with divorce. They did allow divorce in some situations and when they did, because of their strong favor of the women in their society, the children would most always stay with their mother (much like today’s society in divorce where the mother usually gets
The “People of the Longhouse”, also known as the Iroquois people, are actually a group of tribes that is made of up of six tribes in total. Those tribes that make up this league are The Mohawk, The Seneca, The Onondaga, The Cayuga, The Oneida, and lastly The Tuscarora (they played a less important role than the others as they did not join in the league until the 1700s. These tribes were all run basically the same, but each had their individual parts to play in the league (Treuer 32).
The politics for these tribes were run by 50 chiefs would be appointed onto a council by the clan members of each respective tribe (The Tuscarora were not included on this council as they were no one of the original five members of the Iroquois). The distribution of chiefs from each tribe, one would assume, would be an even 10 each. That, however, was not the case. The Mohawk had 9 chiefs, the Seneca had 8, the Onondaga had 14, the Cayuga had 10, and the Oneida had 9 (Treuer 32).
The tribes of the Iroquois was originally located in the areas around New York and Canada. However, they are now not only located there, but also in some parts of Wisconsin and in Oklahoma (Treuer 33). The environment in those areas is mostly woodlands, while the climate varies with the seasons.
The subsistence activities that the Iroquois people took part in were gardening, hunting, …show more content…
They were a people who believed in a single partner marriage (after their religious revival described in the next paragraph), also known as monogamous marriage (Treuer 33). Now, as with marriage in every society, there were ones that did not work out in the end and had to be broken apart with divorce. They did allow divorce in some situations and when they did, because of their strong favor of the women in their society, the children would most always stay with their mother (much like today’s society in divorce where the mother usually gets