Iroquois Longhouse and the Six Nations - Native American
As early as the 1300's and possibly before, the Haudenosaunee, "People of the Longhouse" (Iroquois), built what is called a Longhouse to house their extended families in. The Longhouse was usually 180 to 220 feet long, the length depended on [... more]
Bella Online |
Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
Dandelion was commonly used in Native American medicine. The Iroquois, Ojibwe, and Rappahannock prepared the root and herb to treat kidney disease, upset stomach, and heartburn. In traditional Arabian medicine, dandelion has been used to treat ... [... more]
National Library of Medicine |
Michael Johnson
The Five (later Six) Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy were central to the story of the white colonization of the American Northeast. The European fur trade transformed their world, and the struggles between English and French colonists forced ... [... more]
Random House |
Iroquois Corn
 Iroquois Corn [... more]
$0.89
Buy.com |
Aronia melanocarpa 'Morton' IROQUOIS BEAUTY
Black chokeberry (see J420 herein) is an open, upright, spreading, somewhat rounded but leggy, suckering, deciduous shrub that typically grows 3-6' tall and is noted for its clusters of 5-petaled white spring (May) flowers, glossy obovate dark ... [... more]
Missouri Botanical Garden |
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children [... more]
$22.06
A1 Books |
How to Make Corn Husk Dolls
There is an Iroquois legend that corn, one of the Three Sisters, made little people out of corn husks. These little people were to roam the earth bringing brotherhood and contentment to the Iroquois people. Corn made one of these children ... [... more]
eHow |
C.J. Taylor
The Iroquois Confederacy was one of the world's great democracies, serving as a model that inspired the founders of both the United States and Canada. C. J. Taylor has drawn on her Mohawk heritage and versions of the story she has gathered from ... [... more]
Random House |
The Iroquois Ceremonial of Midwinter (Iroquois and Their ...
The Midwinter ceremonial -- the longest and most complex of the rituals of the Longhouse religion -- is examined here in three parts. Following a short cultural history of the Iroquois and a description of the present geographical location of the various [... more]
$14.37
A1 Books |
If You Lived With The Iroquois (If You.)
If You Lived With The Iroquois: Ellen Levine and illustrator Shelly Hehenberger have created a delightful book that takes the young reader into a historical look at life as an Iroquois Indian. The eighty page book is divided into subtitles which [... more]
$6.99
Amazon.com |
Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier: The ...
Brilliant, Insightful and Gripping.: I very rarely gush over my Amazon book reviews (just check out my other reviews). In fact, I am usually quite harsh and focus primarily on the negative, but this book review is perforce going to be different. The fact [... more]
$22.95
Amazon.com |
League Of The Iroquois
Foundation for Study of the Iroquois League: I read this book for my Classic Ethnographies seminar at school. It is by far one of the most interesting ethnographies I have had the pleasure of reading. It combines ethnography with history and gives the [... more]
$14.95
Amazon.com |
