- Fact 2 - Northeast tribes were
static Woodland tribes of tribe of hunter, farmers and fishers.
Men were in charge of hunting for food and protecting the camp
and the women were in charge of the home and land
- Fact 3 - Names of Border States:
Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
(water border) and Vermont
- Fact 4 - Origin of the name of the
state: Named after England's Duke of York
- Fact 5 - Features of the area:
Mountains in the northeast, lowlands extend from Lake
Ontario northeast along the Canadian border. Atlantic
coastal plain in the southeast; Appalachian Highlands, cover
half the state westward from the Hudson Valley
- Fact 6 - The Indians of New
York were the Delaware, Erie, Iroquois, Mohawk, Oneida and
Seneca Indians tribes
- Fact 7 - The Iroquois are also
known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the Longhouse".
Tribes of Iroquoian-speaking people formed the Iroquois League
referred to as the Five Nations or Iroquois Confederacy was
composed of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca
nations.
- Fact 8 - The Erie, also called the "Cat" or the
"Raccoon" people, originally lived on the south shore of Lake
Erie. The Erie lived in long houses in villages enclosed in
palisades They were decimated by warfare with the neighboring
Iroquois in the 1700's and those who remained merged with the
Seneca tribe.
- Fact 9 - The Delaware: The Lenape,
also referred to as Lenapi or the Delaware Indians, are a group
of several organized bands who lived along the Delaware River.
The "three sisters," corn (maize), beans and squash were the
staples of their diet, supplemented by fish and game.
- Fact 10 - The Mohawk originated
from the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York and known as are the
'keepers of the Eastern Door'. They were fierce protectors of
their territories and referred to as 'Flesh, Man Eaters'.
Mohawks fought against the United States during the American
Revolutionary War. The picture of the Mohawk depicts their
traditional hairstyle (not the the narrow strip of hair down the
middle of the head from forehead to the neck - check out the
Abenaki tribe). They plucked their hair leaving short tufts that
were then braided.
- Fact 11 - The Oneida originated
from the area that later became central New York. Their name
means 'the People of the Standing Stone'. The Oneida were
divided into three clans: the bear, the wolf, and the turtle
clans. During the French and Indian War, the Oneida were allies
of the English. During the Revolutionary War, they were on the
side of the colonists
- Fact 12 - The Seneca were known as the “Keepers
of the Western Door,” for they are the westernmost of the Six
Nations (or Iroquois League) in New York before the American
Revolution. They lived in fortified villages as they were a
war-like people. Their enemies included the Huron.
- Fact 13 - Tribes of
Iroquoian-speaking people formed the Iroquois League referred to
as the Five Nations or Iroquois Confederacy was composed of the
Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca nations.
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