Politics

1. What do the Iroquois call themselves, and what does that name mean?

2. How did Hiawatha get the Onodaga tribe to join the great Iroquois Confederacy?

3. How many of the Six Nations had to agree in the decision-making process to make it a law?

4. What was wampum and what did the Iroquois use it for?

5. What powers do the women of the tribe (clan mothers) have over the men?

6. What were Iroquois societies modeled on?

7. What were the three most common clan animals?

8. What is the Covenant Chain, and what does it look like?

9. What item might be traded as a symbol of a peace treaty or a diplomatic gift?

10. What did the Iroquois trade with the Europeans, and what could the Iroquois get in return?

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