• Wendat (Huron)
• Tabacco (Petun)
• Neutral
• Erie
• Seneca
• Cayuga
• Mohawk
• Onondaga
• Oneida
  

Food

• Three main sources of foods for the Iroquoinas were beans, corn and squash. They called these 3 foods "the three sisters"
• Two ways to get food was by hunting and farming
• The women cooked the food
• The men hunted deer and other animals
• One of the favourite foods of the Iroquoinas people was corn cakes. This was prepared by patting corn into round cakes then baking it

Men

• Men owned their own clothes, weapons and pipes which were usually used for cerimonies
• Hunting
• Fishing
• Going in war
• Men built the longhouses
• Boys were allowed to go hunting with the men after they had killed a deer by themselves

Women

• Women ran the longhouses


• Women owned the blankets (skins), cooking utensils, farming tools, etc...


• Many responsiblities such as: having children to follow the future of the tribe


• In each of the longhouses there was mostly one clan, with the eldest and/or most respected women of the clan leading it as the Clan Mother


• Women chose which men should be speakers, and sometimes the respected women were the ones who spoke
• While the men were gone in war the women and children stayed back to put out fires
• Making baskets

Iroquoinas Long Houses