The Haudenosaunee, also known as the Iroquois, were a tribe of Indians found primarily in the American Northeast and the Great Lakes region, including southern Canada. They have a rich cultural heritage that includes how they lived and ruled, what they believed, and even a form of medicine. Their lives were permeated with religious practices such as sunbathing and healing rituals. As far as healing rituals go, the Iroquois had an unconventional form of medicine. Although they were known to cure common illnesses and injuries such as wounds and broken bones, they had an alternative method of treating more serious cases. This method involved ritual healers chanting and beating drums to ward off evil spirits. The Iroquois also had societies dedicated to treating a specific disease through a specific ritual. The Iroquois had several societies. Such societies were the Little Water, Otter, Bear, Eagle, and False Face Society (Drumm Pp. 7). According to medical societies “both ritual and societal impulse traditionally came from supernatural beings or from an Indian's encounter with a spirit in life or in a dream.” (Drumm Pp. 7) The False Face Dance is one of the best-known spiritual rituals that the Iroquois performed. This ritual was discovered by a hunter in the woods. The hunter noticed some hungry spirits with false faces and gave them some food. In return, the false face spirits taught him the false face dance ritual. The false face ritual is usually performed during the midwinter festival. During the false face ritual, masked dancers enter the homes of tribe members and begin to shout while shaking bark rattles. During the ritual, the dancer... in the center of a sheet of paper... Journal of American Folklore. Volume 13. Number 49 (1900): pp. 81-91. Network. November 2, 2013..Alice, N. (2006). Daily life of Native Americans from post-Columbian America to the nineteenth century. (p. 41). Greenwood Publishing Group. Westport Connecticut. Retrieved October 28, 2013 http://books.google.com/books?id=Ghv-E7OuBlMC&dq=how+iroquois+daily+lives+were+carried+out&source=gbs_navlinks_sDrumm, Judith. "Iroquois Culture". http://www.eric.ed.gov/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED032986. New York State Department of Education. Albany, NY. Published September 1962. Web. Retrieved 3 November 2013. .Parker, Arthur. "Iroquois Solar Myths". Journal of American Folklore. Volume 23. Number 90 (1910): pp. 473-478. Network. November 4. 2013. .