Iroquois Resouces

Resources

Be sure and check the Research Databases. EBSCO has an excellent article. Infortrac will have information as well. To use these sources at home, check with your teacher or librarian for usernames and passwords.
Infotrac

Cayuga	Gayogoho:no (The People of the Great Swamp)-A good overview

	This is an interesting page, Cayuga Indian Fact Sheet for Kids. Good place to begin. The authors seem to be authorities. However, I have not checked this thoroughly so if you find errors here, please tell the librarian.
	This is from the same site. It is called the Cayuga Language and has other links as well including the one above.


Mohawk	Kahniakehake (People of the Flint) - A good overview.
	This is an interesting page, Mohawk Indian Fact Sheet for Kids. Good place to begin. The authors seem to be authorities. However, I have not checked this thoroughly so if you find errors here, please tell the librarian. This is another page from the same site about the language as well as other links.
	Four language sites. First is an alphabet where you can click on the letters and see the Mohawk and English words. The speech feature does not work. The second is a list of first names and their Mohawk equivalent - very cool. Mohawk Words is the most complete site. This has words for lots of things.
	Mohawk stories from the Indigenous Peoples' Literature site. You need to scroll down the page until you find the red headline "Stories."


Oneida	Time line - Gives description of Oneida Indian Nation Land Claims and associated dates
	This is an interesting page, Oneida Indian Fact Sheet for Kids. Good place to begin. The authors seem to be authorities. However, I have not checked this thoroughly so if you find errors here, please tell the librarian. From this same site is an Oneida Language page with lots of other links (some of which are below).
	Copy of the 1788 Map of Oneida Aboriginal Lands - Click on map to make it larger
	Culture and History of the Oneida Nation - Lots of good links - check them out. I especially liked the recordings of the language.
	Onyota'a:ka (People of the Standing Stone) - A good overview.
	A History of the Oneida Nation
	Destination Oneida Nation - I included this page so that you could hear the sound file in the lower left corner - a greeting in the Oneida language. Of the links off this page, the Introduction gives you an economic picture of the tribe today. Explore the Oneida Nation is a tour of the community and worth a quick look. Visit the Nation Next Door locates the tribe on a New York state map.


Onondoga	Onoda'gega (People of the Hills) - A good overview
	This is an interesting page, Onondoga Indian Fact Sheet for Kids. Good place to begin. The authors seem to be authorities. However, I have not checked this thoroughly so if you find errors here, please tell the librarian. From this same site is an Oneida Language page with lots of other links (some of which are below).


Seneca	Tribal History. This site has lots of information and a few links.
	This is an interesting page, Seneca Indian Fact Sheet for Kids. Good place to begin. The authors seem to be authorities. However, I have not checked this thoroughly so if you find errors here, please tell the librarian. This is another page from the site about the language with more links.
	Onodowahgah (The People of the Great Hill) - A good overview.
	The Seneca Nation of Indians official website. Information about the tribe today.
	A Seneca Headdress from the Museum of the American Indian. This is a QuickTIme picture. Try PrintScreen, Paste, and then crop the picture.


Iroquois	Iroquois history. Midway down the page, you will find in red type the paragraph titled, Sub-Nations. There you will see Indians names of the five tribes, what the name means, and villages of that Nation.
	This is an interesting page, Iroquois Indian Fact Sheet for Kids. Good place to begin. The authors seem to be authorities. However, I have not checked this thoroughly so if you find errors here, please tell the librarian.
	The Electronic Longhouse section of the Iroquois Indian Museum site is a table of links. I liked a lot of them (corn, the story of creation, etc.) - the Iroquois Nations and Clans page was particularly engaging.
	Pictures of Iroquois objects collected by Lewis Henry Morgan in the mid-1800s for the New York State Museum.
	The Iroquois of the Northeast. There is a lot of general information about the Iroquois. I don't know if you will find much about your tribe, but lots of good general information. Done by the Carnegie Museum, it is a well-done, accurate site.

Art	A page of Cayuga and other Iroquois baskets. There is also an explanation at the end the page of the Thunder Rite and Ball Game, a ceremony performed by the Cayuga.
	The Logan Museum at Beloit College. A nice collection of Iroquois artifacts.
	The False Face Curing Society. Information about the Iroquois False Face Society.
Clothing	Haudenosaunee's Children's Page. Information about the clothing Iroquois wore.
Clothing	Regional Overview of Native American Clothing Styles. Seneca, Mohawk, and Onondaga.
Region	Iroquois History. This is a long page with lots of information. The regional information might be useful. Look at this when you have a lot of patience to sort through stuff.
Region	Society-Iroquois. The second paragraph deals with region.
Rituals	Iroquois Dreamwork and Spirituality. This has interesting information. Most of the rituals are Iroquois. There is a Seneca ceremony described. When using this site, do not include the modern "new age" material.
Shelter	This is a Canadian site and shows the archeology of a longhouse.
Shelter	A Mohawk Iroquois Village: An Exhibit at the New York State Museum An excellent site!
Songs	Songs of the Iroquois Nation. There are audio files here and descriptions of the dances that accompanied the songs. I like the names.
Stories	http://www.indigenouspeople.net/ipl_final.html - This will give you the homepage of this site. On the left, you will see a navigation bar. Look for "Search" (on the bottom) and click on it. Type in "Iroquois" and click. The first listing is "Iroquois Literature." Click there. You can also try your tribe.
Time Line	Haudenosaunee Time Line
Wampum	Woven Wampum Beadwork. From the NativeTech site, this has lots of excellent information on the history and background.
Wampum	Wampum, treaties, and sacred records.


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