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1 Social Review Questions Chapter 4 The Iroquois Confederacy Chapter 4 The Iroquois Confederacy Key Vocabulary Haudenosaunee: the name the Iroquois confederacy call themselves United Nations Confederacy: a partnership agreed upon by nations or groups of people Clan a large group of families related to one another Collective identity a shared belief system that often includes the same language, culture, values or attitudes Political map; A map showing political regions, country borders, provinces, states and capital cities Historical map: A map showing a region in the past Physical map: a map showing the elevation above or below sea level, mountains, plains, rivers, lakes Land Use Map: A map showing what the land is used for: growing grain, olives, grapes forestry mining.

2 War Chiefs: men selected by nations of the Iroquois to sit on the Grand Council, In wartime, they gathered warriors for fighting Pine Tree Chiefs: men who showed special abilities or had interest in public affairs selected to sin on the Grand Council by its chiefs Generations: successive decendants in a family Clan system a system that balances loyalty to the clan with loyalty to the nation. Consensus a process made by people having an equal voice Focus Questions What is the term Haudenosaunee? What role did women play in Iroquois democracy?

3 Women had roles in decision making, looking after the children and the seeds of the future as they were an agrarian society. Women decided if the tribe would be going to war. How important was the Clan mother? Clan mother had been given the chieftainship title, which allows her to choose the Chief of the tribe. What role did Iroquois men play in the community? Men hunted, fought in wars and built longhouses What was a wampum, and what was it used for? What is a wampum keeper? Wampum was a traditional way in which the Haudenosaunee recorded history.

4 Wampum was a belt med out of shells of different colours. The Wampum keeper was trained in reading the history from the wampum belts What were the roles of the war chiefs? War chiefs met with the Grand Council and prepared men to fight in battle. What were the roles of the pine tree chiefs? They were men chosen with special diplomatic or other abilities who served on the Grand Council How were decisions made in the confederacy? Consensus was the process of decision making at all levels of the confederacy, clan, tribe and Grand Council What is consensus decision making?

5 Everyone had an equal say in decision making, decisions made were done so with everyone in agreement. How was consensus decision making practiced in Iroquois society? Clan level, tribe level and Grand Council level, Even used with La Grande Paix de Montreal The Iroquois Confederacy Pg 76 99 Name: _____ Date: _____ GRCLANFEOIKPFLANFPEIIATGTOENRCLHPHYSICAL PEACEMAKERRAOIETOWAMPUMHCLANMOTHERSRSSIH IESCONSENSUSICHAUDENOSAUNEETREEOFPEACECW OFLHIAWATHAPOCRJIEMHUNITEDNATIONSTHREESI STERSAEICMFCONFEDERACYHIAWATHASEFLESSSOC OLLECTIVEIDENTITYX Social Studies 6: Chapter 4 Iroquois Confederacy 1.

6 Which of the following statements about the role of men and women in the Iroquois Confederacy is most accurate? A) Men and woman shared the responsibility for making decisions, and, as equals, both could be selected to serve as chiefs (men) or chieftainships (women) in the Grand Council. B) Women played an important role in Iroquois society by raising crops and children, but were not able to participate in the government or the decision making process, as these roles were held only by men. C) Men made the decisions in the Grand Council of the Iroquois Confederacy but women retained the right and power as clan mothers to decide which men could be appointed as chiefs and decision makers for their clan.

7 D) In Iroquois society, as a matriarchal society women were more powerful than men and it was women who both led the clans and participated in the government and the decision making process while men stayed mostly in the home and tended to domestic chores. Speaker from the Cayuga Bear Clan: "Using this method to make a decision made sure that the needs of all the nations were met." Speaker from the Mohawk Deer Clan: "Using this technique to reach a decision sometimes took several days to come up with a solutions which was fair and agreeable to everyone.

8 " Speaker from the Seneca Beaver Clan: "Making a decision this way allowed every clan and nation to be able to share their ideas and thoughts." Speaker from the Oneida Turtle Clan: "We met and talked and discussed what to do at great length and had a fair solution created, but, by the time we had all agreed to a solution, it was too late for the actions we chose." 2. The technique for making decisions which is being discussed by the above speakers from the Iroquois Confederacy is called: A) Confederacy.

9 B) Referendum. C) Majority Rule. D) Consensus. Mark and Tom were sitting in the library one day after Social Studies class. Mark said "If I could go back in time, I think I would like to live in ancient Athens eating grapes and debating politics sounds like fun, plus I think I would look great in a toga!" Tom replied "That sounds like fun, but only if you were a citizen Mark!. I think it would have been cool to belong to the Iroquois Confederacy. In the Confederacy, everyone was treated as an equal and their political structure was pretty interesting too.

10 Did you know that they even had the idea of proportional representation, or representation by population included in their political structure?" 3. Tom is referring to which of the following when he speaks of 'proportional representation' or 'representation by population'? A) Each member of Iroquois society was allowed to vote on decisions. B) Nations within the Iroquois Confederacy could each elect one chief for each clan they had. C) The fact that in the Grand Council larger nations had more chiefs to represent them.