Iroquois Food
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Iroquois food. Bass perch pike salmon trout and eels doherty 51 52. They had a number of ways to prepare corn and the other vegetables they grew. Women generally farmed the fields and cooked the meals. They grew crops such as corn beans and squash.
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Full text of iroquis sic foods and food preparation see other formats. Government printing bureau collection cornell. The iroquois had a quite a sweet tooth and were lucky because there were an abundance of maple trees. The iroquois ate a variety of foods.
With these as their main supply of food the women also gathered wild plums grapes cherries berries crab apples and many types of nuts. Publication date 1916 topics iroquois indians indians of north america publisher ottawa. The iroquois r e k w or r e k w or haudenosaunee h o d e n o o n i. They loved maple sugar in many foods one such food being heated nuts rolled in maple sugar.
Iroquois men used spears hooks nets and stone weirs to catch fish such as. People of the longhouse are a historically powerful northeast native american confederacy in north america. The iroquois were one of the first people who learned to tap maple trees to harvest maple syrup. History of fishing bows and arrows gathering wild foods.
These three main crops were called the three sisters and were usually grown together. Iroquis sic foods and food preparation by waugh f. Iroquois people might eat their meat or fish on its own or mixed with corn mush or rolled up in a tortilla. 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.
Americana digitizing sponsor msn contributor cornell university library contributor usage rights see terms language english. They sometimes roasted their meat or baked it in the coals from their fire.