Iroquois Food
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Iroquois food. Iroquois men used spears hooks nets and stone weirs to catch fish such as. Iroquois people also gathered many wild foods. They grew crops such as corn beans and squash. The iroquois had a quite a sweet tooth and were lucky because there were an abundance of maple trees.
The iroquois also grew sunflowers for oil which they used for cooking or rubbed on the skin for protection against the sun or cold or to help cuts. They sometimes roasted their meat or baked it in the coals from their fire. Publication date 1916 topics iroquois indians indians of north america publisher ottawa. With these as their main supply of food the women also gathered wild plums grapes cherries berries crab apples and many types of nuts.
They loved maple sugar in many foods one such food being heated nuts rolled in maple sugar. Government printing bureau collection cornell. Iroquois people might eat their meat or fish on its own or mixed with corn mush or rolled up in a tortilla. They had a number of ways to prepare corn and the other vegetables they grew.
Women generally farmed the fields and cooked the meals. These three main crops were called the three sisters and were usually grown together. The iroquois tribe belongs to the confederacy by the same name. Known by different names such as league of peace and power six nations and even people of the longhouse the group is one of the earliest native americans.
The iroquois r e k w or r e k w or haudenosaunee h o d e n o o n i. Food preparation it was polite for women to always have food in a pot over the fire for their husbands children and guests mccall 13. History of fishing bows and arrows gathering wild foods. The iroquois were one of the first people who learned to tap maple trees to harvest maple syrup.
American food cuisine restaurant burger zurich. The iroquois ate a variety of foods. Iroquois food drinks. Iroquis sic foods and food preparation by waugh f.
Bass perch pike salmon trout and eels doherty 51 52. People of the longhouse are a historically powerful northeast native american confederacy in north america.