justin sommers brad ellsworth malachi murphy. relied on corn, squash, and beans also hunted and...
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• Relied on corn, squash, and beans
• Also hunted and fished
• Highly skilled at warfare
• Known as the keeper of the west
• One of the 6 tribes to make up the Iroquois
Culture
• Lived in longhouses• Could be 100 feet long, covered with bark, and could fit a clan up to
60 people
• Farmed
• Fished, hunted• Bows and arrows, spears
• Ate beaver, moose, raccoons, buffalo
Home Life
• Official language was Ogwehowen
• First occupied that part of west New York between Seneca lake and Geneva river
• Participated in ritual cannibalism
• Tortured their prisoners
• Had a constitution between 5 of the 6 tribes
• Mohawks and tattoos
History
• Red Jacket (1758 - 1830)
• Cornplanter (1740 – 1836)
• Destroy Town
• Handsome Lake (1735 – 1815)• Brother to cornplanter
• Blacksnake (1760 – 1859)
• Ely Parker (1828 – 1895)
Leaders