FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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Inuit
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Iroquois
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Lakota
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Pueblo
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Detailed explanation-1: -The name Haudenosaunee means “People of the Longhouse.” To the Haudenosaunee people, the longhouse meant much more than the building where they lived. The Longhouse was also a symbol for many of the traditions of their society. Five nations formed the original Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Iroquois people have inhabited the areas of Ontario and upstate New York for well over 4, 000 years.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Iroquois lived in longhouses, large houses up to 100 feet in length usually made of elm bark. As many as 20 families shared the longhouse, with dozens of individuals and their dogs occupying the space.
Detailed explanation-4: -January 8, 2019. A longhouse was the basic house type of pre-contact northern Iroquoian-speaking peoples, such as the Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Petun and Neutral. The longhouse sheltered a number of families related through the female line.
Detailed explanation-5: -Iroquois and the other East Coast longhouses The Iroquois (Haudenosaunee or “People of the Longhouses") who resided in the Northeastern United States as well as Eastern Canada (Ontario and Quebec) built and inhabited longhouses.