NAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Peacemaker Kurogane, Onondaga People, Iroquois Kinship
22 Feb 2017
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The name was used as a metaphor to describe the new relations between. The correct name for the iroquois people. Longhouse(cid:499) or (cid:498)people building an extended house. (cid:499) Name was given by hiawatha or anywatha known as the (cid:498)peace maker(cid:499). Iroquois is actually taken from a huron word that means (cid:498)black snakes(cid:499) and. Confederacy members at the time of confederation formation. is considered derogatory. Kinship & language in lack of adequate terminology. The greatest difficulty in describing a kinship system of another culture lies. Although english has terms for ((cid:494)eskimo kinship(cid:499)) nuclear family members, it is often inadequate when required to convey relations in other kin systems. Each iroquois belonged to the longhouse family into which he or she was born, which was the mother"s longhouse family. Longhouse family membership lasted throughout one"s life. The head of the longhouse family was always a woman, usually the oldest woman, and occasionally some other highly respected woman.
