Have you ever wondered how daily life was for the Iroquois tribe? Well then this page will answer most of your questions! I hope you enjoy this page filled with many interesting facts that will interest you. LifeDaily is your Daily Fix of interesting and informative content, written to make your Life better, Daily. ‘There are also few new experiences for you, just the humdrum of daily life and the loneliness of having to get on with it on your own.’ ‘Sometimes you step back from your routines of daily life and think about your life as a whole.’ ‘I think a central space should be designed for daily life, not for special events.’. What did they do on a normal daily basis? The Mohawk (Kanienkeh or Kanienkehaka meaning 'People of the Place of the Crystals') are an indigenous people of North America who live around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River in what is now Canada and the United States. Iroquois men hunted from the beginning of the Fall to mid-Winter, and fished in Farming determined the way the Indians lived. Iroquois moved to new locations when their large fields no longer produced a good crop of beans, corn, and squash. They called beans, squash, and corn.

The Iroquiois lived in longhouses made with wood frames and covered in bark. Sometimes they reaches over 100 feet in length. This is why they were known as the people of the longhouse. There were holes in the roof of the longhouses to let smoke out from fires used for cooking and warmth. They travelled by foot everywhere they went or canoes made out of elm bark.

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In their crops they grew the three sister (corn, beans, squash) and tobacco. Women and children gathered nuts, berries, fruits and vegtables, eggs and, herbs. These were eaten when meat was running low. Men hunted deer, rabbit, bear, beaver, and many other animals. They smoked fish and dried most of their other animals and some berries. They used sunflower seed oil to heal wounds, fry food and as a lotion to keep there skin protected from hot and cold. They stored dried foods in clay pots which had bark covering it to keep the mice out.

Those who spent $5 or $20 on others reported being much happier while those that spent money on themselves showed no change in happiness. Also of note, the group that gave away $5 was just as happy as the group that had $20 to give away showing that happiness in giving can be more about the how as opposed to the how much (more on that later). Help us out by donating teach to be happy hour.

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