What was the transportation the iroquois used?
Canoes and their feet. Dogs might have carried items but there were no horses or large beast of burden. Hiawatha, one of the tribe’s great stories, builds a canoe for his quest. While known by the French term, “Iroquois,” the people of the tribe call themselves the “Hau de no sau nee” (ho dee noe sho nee) or “People of the Longhouse.” The French term comes from the Algonquian word “Iroqu” meaning “red adders”, The Iroquois Confederacy was originally composed of five Nations. In 1715, the league was expanded into six. They lived mainly in the New York State region and their influence extended south into Pennsylvania, west to the Hurons and north into Canada. The Mohawks, Onondagas, Senecas, Oneidas, Cayugas, and Tuscaroras formed the League. The League comprised the oldest living participatory democracy. The United States uses a representational democracy. Today, outside of the League, the only regular participatory democracy is found in the New England Town Meetings. The League was cen
