As a result of the money earned from land rented to the Palatines having an income equal to a middle - class English family .
The Palatines are the Iroquois elite gave up living in longhouses and started living in European style houses .
As a result of the money earned from land rented to the Palatines , the Iroquois elite gave up living in longhouses and started living in European style houses , having an income equal to a middle - class English family .