Iroquois

elect all of their officials except for their chief, who would work towards peace for his people. Since all of the gardening and gathering was done by the women of the tribes often these women held positions of influence, and some clans such as the Iroquois gave the most authoritative position to a female called the Clan Mother. A Clan Mother was responsible for listening to her people, for selecting men from the tribe to act as Chief, for advising the appointed Chief, and for making sure that…

Sociological Investigation Number Two I strongly agree that the European Americans committed genocide against the Native Americans. The characteristics of the violence faced by Native Americans fits many facets of the definition of genocide. According to Article Six of the Rome Statutes, genocide consists of attempting to kill members of a group, causing serious bodily harm, trying to bring about a group’s destruction, preventing births, and forcibly relocating a group. For an event to be…

Native Americans Before European Exploration Before the arrival of the Spanish, French, and English in the western hemisphere the Aztecs and Incas were prosperous civilization. The Aztecs were militaristic and ended up controlling most of central Mexico. The Inca were more peace like and economic. They established a highly developed farming civilization in present day Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. The Inca became a massive empire that stretched along the Andes and Pacific Ocean by the mid­…

A little background: The oldest you can be as a camper is 15 years old. but the thing is that their can only be four 15 year olds and they are the leaders of the four camp teams: Iroquois, Navajo, Chippewa, and Apache. These 15 year olds are in charge of “drafting” the camp kids throughout the summer onto their respected team to compete in competitions and races for points to “win” the summer. This is a huge honor and responsibility…

One major pattern repeats itself throughout history. The search for power transcends time period, culture, and language. Sometimes the way in which power is sought changes, because power comes in many forms. Knowledge is power, but so is money, influence, and superior technology. Sometimes, people seek to destroy the power of others by eradicating or stealing knowledge, money, or superior technology. Other times, to gain influence, they will take advantage of religion, or the resentment harbored…

This paper will be about Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle the explorer. It will talk about different areas of exploration of the Americas that La Salle discovered and mapped. It will also discuss La Salle’s trials and tribulations of his discoveries and his final outcome. La Salle was born on November twenty-first, 1643 in Roven, France, the son of a well-known merchant. At a young age, La Salle had joined the Jesuit College to become a Jesuit priest. His superiors noted that he was…

Clash with the Chesapeake - When they first arrived, they encoutered the chieftain Powhatan who asserted supremacy of the James river, he considered the settleres as future allies so didn't do much but tensions were still high. Once Lord De La Warr arrived he placed "irish tactics" against the indians basically rainding villages, burning houses, doing bad stuff to them. The marriage of Pocahontas to John rolfe ended this first anglo-powhatan war. But eventually the Indians fought back killing…

beasts” (Rowlandson 237). Facing similar situations, other authors of the same time-period as Rowlandson use the same adjectives as a method to dehumanizing this culture by assigning feral traits. In the story of “Father Bressani 's Captivity Among the Iroquois”, Giuseppe Bressani, uses the familiar descriptive method in his second letter of his personal narrative: “I was unable, during my captivity, to render to any of those wretched beings, in return for the evil they did me, the good which…

because the Spanish set up churches and imprisoned many of the Natives. Although some were not on board, most Natives kicked out the Spanish and destroyed their churches and killed many priests. The Spanish fled to Mexico to regroup. -This like the Iroquois Confederation was significant because a group of Natives were actually able to hold their ground with the Europeans. The Spanish did come back and overtake them but after 50 years. Also many other things happened like the marriage of the…

capabilities with local Amerindian tribes. The war was primarily fought due to the importance of imperialism during this time. More land equaled more power and that is exactly what both countries wanted. When war broke out, the British allied with the Iroquois tribes and the French with the Hurons and other Ohio River Valley tribes. After years of fighting each other, the war was finally ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. This agreement…