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Iroquois Food Practices and Traditions

The document contains questions about traditional Iroquois farming practices, food sources, and tools. It asks about the three sisters crops of corn, beans, and squash grown together; women's role in farming; uses for corn plants; common hunted foods like deer; fishing techniques like fish drives; springtime foods hunted; purpose for painting bows; pointed cooking pot design; uses for gathered cherries; and making hoes for farming.

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Iroquois Food Practices and Traditions

The document contains questions about traditional Iroquois farming practices, food sources, and tools. It asks about the three sisters crops of corn, beans, and squash grown together; women's role in farming; uses for corn plants; common hunted foods like deer; fishing techniques like fish drives; springtime foods hunted; purpose for painting bows; pointed cooking pot design; uses for gathered cherries; and making hoes for farming.

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Iroquois Food
1. What are the three sisters? (Click on the Three Sisters)
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2. Who was responsible for the farming in an Iroquois community?


(Click on The Three Sisters)
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3. List three Iroquois uses for the non-edible parts of the corn
plant. (Click on the Three Sisters and then on the word corn)
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4. What did Iroquois men hunt most for food? (Click on In the
Forest)

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5. How did a fish drive work?


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6. What tasty food did Iroquois love to hunt in the spring? (Same
directions as 5)
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7. What purpose does it serve to paint your bow?


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8. Look at a picture of Iroquois cooking and speculate: why are


the pots pointed on the bottom?
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9. When do the Iroquois gather cherries and what are they used
for?
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10. How would an Iroquois make a hoe (farming implement)?


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