Haudenosaunee Longhouse
by Ellen Levinson
Title
Haudenosaunee Longhouse
Artist
Ellen Levinson
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Photograph - Photograph
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The Longhouse was a long building , usually about 80 ft by 18 ft ( larger ones occasionally as much as 246 ft by 18 - 23 ft). The 80 ft longhouse was made using about 1000 poles closely spaced with bark woven between them to create fairly weatherproof walls with a domed roof constructed of saplings lashed to the poles and covered with grass and leaves. Bark shingles were sewn together over the frame. 5 to 6 ventilation holes were in the roof and there were doors covered by hides at each end. The longhouse was made to house around 20 families ,most of them related through matrilineal - the mother s clan . Children were born into the mother 's clan. A tall palisade or wall was built surrounding the village to keep it safe.
The original Iroquois League was often known as the Five Nations, as it was composed of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca nations. After the Tuscarora nation joined the League in 1722, the Iroquois became known as the Six Nations. The League is embodied in the Grand Council, an assembly of fifty hereditary sachems. Other Iroquian peoples lived along the St. Lawrence River, around the Great Lakes and in the American Southeast, but they were not part of the Haudenosaunee and often competed and warred with these tribes.
The Iroquois are also known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the Longhouse" or more precisely "They Are Building a Longhouse " They are a league of several nations and tribes of indigenous people of North America. When the Iroquoian-speaking peoples of present-day central and upstate New York formed distinct tribes (by the 16th century or earlier), they joined together into what is known today as the Iroquois League, or the "League of Peace and Power".
Originally the Iroquois League was often referred to as the Five Nations, as icomposed of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca nations. In 1722 the Tuscarora nation joined the League,and the Iroquois became known as the Six Nations. Not all Iroquois peoples were part of the Haudenosaunee, and there was frequent competition and warring with the Iroquois who lived around the St The League is embodied in the St. Lawrence River, the Great Lakes and in the American Southeast.
My grandson took this image on a school field trip to Cooperstown,NY and came home all excited to show me!
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