Iroquois

The Iroquois or the Haudenosaunee were from upstate New York and southern Ontario. The five Iroquois nations warred against themselves and the Algonquin for a long time. Two men called Deganawida and Hiawatha helped bring the five nations to peace. Despite this peace, the Iroquois still quarreled with the Algonquin. After the confederation, the Iroquois became one of the greatest powers on the continent. Agriculture was their main source of food (iroquoisdemocracy.pdx.edu). The Iroquois were not…

Roles of Leadership and Relationships to Land of Pueblo and Iroquois Native Americans Prior to the American Revolution Pueblo and Iroquois Indians that resided in the Southwest and Northeast respectively had very rich and diverse cultures that involved trade and complex religious beliefs that influenced their roles of leadership and relationships to land. Roles of leaders in both Pueblo and Iroquois societies included religion, trade, diplomacy, and after colonization began, resistance. There…

Iroquois The “People of the Longhouse”, also known as the Iroquois people, are actually a group of tribes that is made of up of six tribes in total. Those tribes that make up this league are The Mohawk, The Seneca, The Onondaga, The Cayuga, The Oneida, and lastly The Tuscarora (they played a less important role than the others as they did not join in the league until the 1700s. These tribes were all run basically the same, but each had their individual parts to play in the league (Treuer 32).…

“Kanehsatake : 270 Years of Resistance” deals with the Oka crisis, a confrontation between Mohawk Indians living in an area near Oka and the Canadian military. The interest of a local land development leads to an approval by government to expand a private 9-hole golf course and build a luxury housing, both to be located on the burial ground and sacred pine grove belonging to the Mohawk nation. These served as an impetus for a 270 year battle to officially regain the territory. A crowd of Mohawk…

continuation of the states to grow. A few years after the first Native American Indian settlers, a more rigid government was put in charge, thus the formation of the Iroquois Confederation. The Iroquois Confederation started a government that consisted of Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cauca and Seneca Indian. (Class Notes 9/1). The government, the Iroquois Confederation established is…

Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian leadership is a biography by R. David Edmunds. It is about Tecumseh, and his life as a Shawnee warrior. Tecumseh was born in Old Piqua, and in his younger years he joined Mohawk chief Joseph Brant. He joined him because Tecumseh was against whites settling in the United States. Tecumseh was five feet and ten inches which was slightly taller than average. He was also very muscular, and overall a nearly perfect image of a warrior. Another great skill he had was he…

the archaeological record to provide the answers regarding the past. He highly relies on the archaeological record (ceramic styles, design) to determine information on identity, politics and interrelationships between the St. Lawrence Iroquoians and Huron-Wendat people. Opinions in Place of Conclusions: These are unsupported assertions which Gibbon (2014) suggests are opinions. Therefore, the following are opinions asserted in place of conclusions: ¬ Ramsden (2016:6) suggests that his…

Much like many other minority groups, Indigenous people have been subjected to the harsh reality of being minorities for many decades. It is the common misrepresentations and stereotypes that indigenous people have faced throughout history and even to this day, that have led to the abuse, violence, racism and loss of land that these groups have been subjected to. But it is the misrepresentations surrounding Indigenous people, such as the idea that they are the “settlers”, that they have…

In 1990 a group of Huron, or Wendat indigenous people, entered Jacques Cartier park, a national park, and cut down trees, and were taken to court. They were found innocent, even though, according to Canada National Parks Act, it is illegal to remove parts of the park. That includes the trees. The Huron said that an agreement signed in 1760 let them. They argued that because it was unique to aboriginal people, they were allowed to cut down those trees because it was one of their religious or…

The Iroquois believed their league originated from the efforts of a man named Deganawida, or “Great Peacemaker.” From his efforts, he bound the five powerful tribes of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca of what is now upstate New York and French Canada into a powerful Confederacy of the through a system of kinship and consensus. It is fitting, then, that diplomacy was one of the Iroquois’ (or Haudenosaunee, as they called themselves) greatest strengths, allowing them to maintain…