America's First People

2. A __________________ is a group of people born and living about the same time.
4. The Iroquois had traded ________________ furs with European settlers for guns and other supplies.
10. The Iroquois won the Beaver Wars because they had better _____________________.
11. The Iroquois helped European settlers adapt to the environment by __________________ them how to fish and plant crops.
13. The Iroquois chose to live in northern New York because of the geography. They used the _______________ for fishing and traveling.
14. Even though the Confederacy allowed each group to rule itself, the Five Nations felt it was best to come together so they can be stronger and more _______________________.
15. A confederacy is a formal ________________________ or treaty, between groups to work together.

1. The main _______________ of the Iroquois Confederacy was the Great Law of Peace.
3. The American Indians who live on ____________________ today are governed by their own tribal government and the United States government.
5. The Iroquois used trees to build special looking shelter called _____________________ that could be home to as many as ten families.
6. A __________________ is a special way that a group does something that is passed down from one generation to the next.
7. Each Native American tribe had its own cultures and _________________, or special ways of doing things.
8. The Cherokee settled in the forests of the ____________________ United States.
9. The American Indians cooperated and protected each other's rights by forming the Iroqouis _____________________.
12. Sequoyah was a famous Cherokee who invented a system for ____________________ the Cherokee language.