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