This confederacy’s name Haudenosaunee (“hoh-den-oh-SHOW-nee”) translates to “People of the Longhouse” and its constituents like the Mohawk were referred to by terms like “Keepers of the Eastern Door.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Native American confederacy located in modern-day upstate New York.
ANSWER: Iroquois Confederacy [or the Iroquois League; accept the Five Nations or Six Nations]
[10m] Tribes of the Great Lakes typically resided in longhouses or these domed dwellings covered in vegetation or cloth. Mary Rowlandson described Pequot examples of these structures during King Philip’s War.
ANSWER: wigwams [or wickiups or wetu]
[10h] Some scholars have compared this tribe’s shabono huts to North American longhouses. The anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon (“SHAN-yohn”) controversially studied violence amongst this large tribe in the Amazon rainforest.
ANSWER: Yanomami [or Yąnomamö or Yanomama]
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