Jul. 2—PLATTSBURGH — Longhouse means more than one thing to the Haudenosaunee, People of the Longhouse. "Longhouse with a lower case l is a term that describes the traditional building we used ...

Efforts are underway to rebuild a Haudenosaunee longhouse more than a century old that was destroyed by fire on the Cattaraugus Territory.

May 11—Old Fort Niagara will host its second annual smoke dance competition, Native Nations at Niagara today. The Smoke Dance was originally a Haudenosaunee war dance, primarily danced by men ...

Also known as “People of the Longhouse,” the Haudenosaunee Confederacy is made up of the Onondaga, Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora nations of central and upstate New York.

In a few days, the sections were ready to lash to the log framework of a longhouse which might be home to dozens of families. Being consummate agronomists, the Haudenosaunee stored massive amounts ...

The oral traditions surrounding and informing the early protocols continue in living memory through elders and ceremonial cycles of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) longhouses. Their material legacy is ...

The building itself evokes the imagery of a traditional Haudenosaunee longhouse with elongated wings and weathered clapboard siding.

The longhouse, which was the multi-family clan living space for the Haudenosaunee in the time before European contact, is now predominantly used for ceremonial purposes.