First American People

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Across
  1. 2. Hiawatha was an Onondaga _______ and a member of the Iroquois Confederacy.
  2. 5. The main __________ of the Iroquois Confederacy was the Great Law of Peace.
  3. 6. American Indians were the first people to _________ in North America.
  4. 11. The Iroquois had traded ________ furs with European settlers for guns and other supplies.
  5. 12. The Iroquois people adapted to their physical environment by using rivers for fishing and ___________.
Down
  1. 1. Longhouses could be home to as many as ____ families.
  2. 2. Sequoyah helped the _____________ community by inventing a writing system for them.
  3. 3. The Iroquois _____________ illustrated how American Indians cooperated and protected each other's rights.
  4. 4. Today, some American Indians in the United States live on ________________, or lands that the United States government set aside for them many years ago.
  5. 7. The American Indians who live on reservations are governed by their ________ government and the United States government.
  6. 8. A _________ is a special way that a group does something that is passed down from one generation to the next.
  7. 9. The Iroquois used trees to build houses that were up to 200 feet long called ____________.
  8. 10. The Iroquois helped European settlers learn to adapt to the environment by teaching them about _________ and fishing.