What Are Some Things The Iriquois Gave Us?

Question

For A Project We Have To Present 3 Things The Iriquois Gave Us And Our Teacher Said U Can Look It Up On Your Computer.Got AnyThing?

Answer 1

According to the first site below, there seems to be some connection between the Iroquois' "Great Law of Peace" and the U.S. Constitution (see site 1).

According to the link below (4): "Iroquois is an easily recognized name, but like the names of many tribes, it was given them by their enemies. The Algonquin called them the Iroqu (Irinakhoiw) "rattlesnakes." After the French added the Gallic suffix "-ois" to this insult, the name became Iroquois. The Iroquois call themselves Haudenosaunee meaning "people of the long house." Other names: Canton Indians; Confederate Indians; Ehressaronon (Huron); Five Nations; Massawomeck (Powhatan); Matchenawtowaig (Ottawa "bad snakes"); Mengue (French); Mingo, Minqua, Mingwe (Delaware); Nadowa, Nadowaig, Nautowa (Ojibwe "adders"); and after 1722, the Six Nations."

Another contribution is a type of dwelling, usually called a "long house" or "quonset hut", which design was used in airplane hangers and army barracks later on.

-The game of lacrosse. See link 3.

See link 4 below (www.oswego.edu) for a comprehensive description of the Iroquois society. They were the most important of all the North American nations, but not that different. Their society was matrilineal (men took their wives names and moved into the wife's family house). Women owned the fields and tilled them while the men hunted.

According to this website, it was their system of government that made them unique. As stated above, it was a representative system, with "checks and balances" in power. To quote the above site: "It was the Iroquois political system, however, that made them unique, and because of it, they dominated the first 200-years of colonial history in both Canada and the United States. Strangely enough, there were never that many of them, and the enemies they defeated in war were often twice their size. Although much has been made of their Dutch firearms, the Iroquois prevailed because of their unity, sense of purpose, and superior political organization. Since the Iroquois League was formed prior to any contact, it owed nothing to European influence. Proper credit is seldom given, but the reverse was actually true. Rather than learning political sophistication from Europeans, Europeans learned from the Iroquois, and the League, with its elaborate system of checks, balances,, and supreme law, almost certainly influenced the American Articles of Confederation and Constitution."

I couldn't come up with any more contributions, other than the use of corn and squash as staples in the diet, which European settlers adopted. Read on and find more!

Answer 2

The Iroquois Confederacy gave us a template of government that we adopted. They also illustrated a sound defense system of their huge territory by assigning the five, and later, six nations their own areas of defense.

They proved, along with the Cherokee, that the women in their society have true power and intellect in government affairs.

Answer 3

God would not want us to experience free. we are not promised a rose backyard. He needs us to have excitement- there's a tremendous distinction. Happiness is fleeting. yet excitement must be felt even in situations of suffering. that would not advise God is merciless- he's not merciless. he's loving. yet he has his motives for permitting us to have issues, in simple terms as he has his motives for taking this stuff remote from us. God is sturdy- yet we do not continually understand him. some issues must be regularly taking place on faith, and under no circumstances in accordance to our own common sense or comprehend-how.

Answer 4

Their land. And pride. And happiness. And self worth.

Answer 5

The most prominent thing we got from them was their land

Answer 6

WHY is this in etiquette? Do you know what that word means?