When studying different Native American tribes, sometimes everything gets all mashed together and gets confusing. However, they aren’t all the same; actually, they are quite different in many aspects. The Iroquois and Navajo tribes are a great example. Differences lay everywhere: location, religion, the way they dress, the things they eat, an even what their living quarters are made of. One of the most obvious differences between the Iroquois and Navajo tribes is their living structures. Iroquois, located in the northeast, lived in structures called longhouses. As the name says, these houses are long and rectangle shaped. Longhouses were usually built on hilltops, and made of poles, slabs of bark, with the doors being animal skins. Navajo on the other hand, lived in structures called hogans. These were round with the door always facing the east. Something the Navajo did that the Iroquois didn’t was that they blessed their homes in special ceremonies. These ceremonies were thought to bring happiness and good luck to their homes. Living quarters are the only difference between these two tribes though. …show more content…
The Iroquois were primarily hunters, farmers, gatherers, and traders. They hunted deer and other game. For farming, they actually had to move to new locations every so often because the soil would lose its nutrients and wouldn’t produce good crops any longer. Navajo people were gathered and hunters like the Iroquois, but something that they did unlike the Iroquois, was raiding. Aside from that, they hunted deer, antelope, and rabbits; grew watermelons, corn, beans, and squash; and gathered wild plants, seeds, roots, and berries. Some of these differences are related to the differences we learned about in the reading