The Haudneosanee

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Across
  1. 2. The women leaders who chose the council chiefs and got rid of the chiefs who didn’t do what was best for the community are known as clan ______.
  2. 4. In Herons Flying’s story about Tekwaarathon, a flying squirrel and a _______ were considered too small to play on the four-leggeds team.
  3. 6. The path used by Haudenosaunee messengers that crossed all the nations is known as the Iroquois (or Mohawk) ______.
  4. 7. The Haudenosaunee constitution was called the Great Law of ________.
  5. 11. The 3 main vegetables eaten by the Haudenosaunee were beans, squash, and ______, which they ground into flour.
  6. 12. Haudenosaunee men and women wore soft shoes made of leather called ________.
  7. 17. The name that French settlers called the Haudenosaunee was _________.
  8. 19. Haudenosaunee was a word that meant “People of the ________”
  9. 20. An average of _______ families could live in the same longhouse, sometimes more.
Down
  1. 1. the Haudenosaunee played a game with sticks and a ball called Tekwaarathon, which is called _________ today.
  2. 3. Before the Great League formed, the Haudenosaunee people were united by a message of cooperation from ________ and the Great Peacemaker.
  3. 5. A Haudenosaunee person probably had more than one ______ in their life, one at birth, one as a teenager, and one as an adult.
  4. 8. At _______ meetings, all 50 chiefs had to come to an agreement.
  5. 9. Haudenosaunee messengers could run up to _______ miles per day.
  6. 10. ________ belts were used at council meetings, during ceremonies, and to record laws.
  7. 13. The Haudenosaunee made wampum from __________.
  8. 14. Haudenosaunee nations were made of extended families called _______.
  9. 15. When the Great League was formed, there were _______ nations.
  10. 16. The Haudenosaunee had a 13 month calendar system based on the cycles of the _______.
  11. 18. Longhouses could be up to _____ hundred feet long.