The Iroquois Tribe
"Instinct" by Santee Smith
The Iroquois tribe in the United States is built up into five nations; Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca. The Tuscarora joined the tribe later making it built up into six nations. They lived in what is now considered New York state and their villages where built up of longhouses. There were usually two longhouses per village, which were built by rivers and could house thirty to sixty people in them.
The Iroquois tribe were not nomadic, as the Blackfoot tribe was, but they did move when the soil became barren. They were more agricultural in there communities. Each year the tribe would hold six main festivals in order to give thanks to the good spirits for health, clothes, food, and prosperity. The Iroquois tribe was feminist and the women had most of the power. They owned lands and titles, and the men moved clans when married. Chiefs are not elected, but rather chosen through hereditary lineage.