Well, I got the history set up, now I just need the other stuff. Tell me what you think:
The Iroquois, who originally came with other Native Americans, first settled in north-eastern North American around 1000 A.D. They later moved northward up the Susquehanna river (from modern Maryland) because of the global warm weather during 1000 and 1300 A.D., just like the Inuit moving east and the Vikings moving west because of same thing. The Iroquois took their land from a smaller group of roaming people we call the Woodland people. In the 1200's A.D., for instance, the Cayuga (a different kind of Iroquois) drove the Allegans out from the north end of Owasco Lake (now the town of Auburn), a trade town where two important traveling trails crossed at. The Iroquois wasn't their original name, which was an Algonquin insult meaning "snakes". The original name was "Hanudenosaunee", a word in their language which means "people who live in long houses." Or they would call themselves by the type of Iroquois they we're, for instance, there were the Cayugas, the Mohawks, the Oneida, or the Seneca. The Iroquois brought farming with them when they came to this area (moderning New York and Pennsylvania). Iroquoian farmers grew crops like corn, beans, squash, sunflowers, and tobacco. Around 1350 A.D., the warm weather came to an end, and the environment became a "Little Ice Age", with colder weather. The Iroquois fought a lot of wars during this 'small ice age', and they began building their villages on high grounds and surrounded themselves with strong, log walls. One of the main enemies, the Algonquin, were trying to move further down south where the weather was warmer and they could grow better crops. Around the 1400's A.D., the Iroquois created a confederacy, which is like a club. It was an agreement between the different groups of Iroquois - the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Cayuga, the Seneca, and the Onandagua - so they would get along and fight on teams with each other against foes, instead of fight one another. The agreement was recorded using wampum.
