Iroquois culture

type of haircut having the hair shaven on both sides of the head and a noticeably longer strip of hair in the center

thumb|300px|right|Quahog (left) and whelk (right) wampum thumb|right|A representation of the original Two Row Wampum Treaty|Two Row Wampum treaty belt thumb|Modern examples and interpretations of wampum thumb|right|Haudenosaunee wampum belt

Dutch-based creole spoken around the Mohawk River

indigenous peoples' flag

Kinship system

Orenda is the Haudenosaunee name for a certain spiritual energy inherent in people and their environment. It is an "extraordinary invisible power believed by the Iroquois Native Americans to pervade in varying degrees in all animate and inanimate natural objects as a transmissible spiritual energy capable of being exerted according to the will of its possessor." Orenda is a collective power of nature's energies through the living energy of all natural objects: animate and inanimate.