Iroquois

History 1376- Paper Assignment #1 Dear mom and dad it’s me Wounmee, I know it has been a while, but I just wanted to write to you about how my time here in New England. I moved here because I didn’t like the Protestant church is back home. When I was in England I heard about a group of people who called themselves the Puritans. They were a group who also believed that the Protestant Church was not complete and was corrupt just like the Catholics. The Puritans wanted to clean up the church…

Kyle Oyague Mr. Burns English 11 Honors Period 4 14 September 2015 A. The World on the Turtles back B. Iroquois C. “But the creatures of the sea came to her and said they would try and help her and ask what they could do” (page 40). This quote shows personification because in the real world animals don’t talk to humans. “In the beginning there was no world, no land, no creatures of the kind that are around us now, and there were no men. But there was a great ocean which occupied space as far as…

Folk Medicine and the Impact on Modern Medicine Recently, studies of folklore continue being an interesting topic for many scholars. Examples of Folklore include songs, art, stories, myths and medicine. Medicine being one of the most important, since the importance of keeping a cultural based is essential to many Native Americans, who continue being impacted with today’s medical era. Today, modern medicine has been the hope for many ill patients. People have more access to different types of…

Women’s role in society drastically changed from the development of European colonies up to the American Revolution. During the early development of European colonies, we’ll look at the lives of Native American women and their roles in society and how they changed through the colonization of North America. Specifically, I’ll look at the life of Pocahontas and Jikonsahseh, prominent Native American women. I will look at enslaved women from their initial arrival until the abolishment of slavery by…

Niema Poindexter Professor Guevara Pols 197 9 December 2014 Natives and African Americans The race relations with races within the United States are damage and needs to be repair. The damage was created the day they set foot on Jamestown. The whiteness was created by the greed for power, money, and domination; whiteness has belittled groups that we see as minorities. The minorities have very little power compare to the majority. Given that, the majority group was created from the whiteness…

Most Americans have heard of the Civil Rights Movement, and names like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are common knowledge. Not many Americans, though know about or have even heard of the American Indian Movement, in return leaders like Dennis Banks(Ojibwe) and Russell Means(Oglala Sioux) are virtually unknown. Many things will be discussed and alluded to in this paper, some of which I will attempt to explain; for an example at the time of AIM, “Traditionals” were full-blooded American…

The relationship that Nanabush formed with Marie-Adele and Christophe formed with Snow Falls was intended to further the spread of their spirituality, but in doing so, their actions became misunderstood by others. For Nanabush, the only two women on the reserve that are able to see him – Marie-Adele and Zhaboonigan – do not know who he truly is. This is shown when Marie-Adele first badgers him with questions such as, “who the hell do you think you are, the Holy Spirit?” (Highway 1.19). In…

Called French and Indian War in America, Seven Years’ War French v.s. British The French were outnumbered, even with their Indian allies, with the exception of the Iroquois who refused to ally with France and negotiated a treaty with the English government instead. British General Edward Braddock leads 2,500 men against Fort Duquesne, where the French and Indians ambush and kill them. In 1758, Braddock is avenged by William Pitts in a retake of Fort Duquesne. Britain planned expedition to…

The Huron Indians were in frequent battle with the Iroquois. They would eventually come to settle in Ohio and participate in the American Revolution and War of 1812. By 1842, they would migrate to Kansas and then to Oklahoma in 1867. Their myth was not influenced by their migrations and Christianity. The…

Just a few lots to the west of the two Jennings’ farm was the Pelham branch of the Quaker’s the oldest such branch in Canada. The Friends, as they call their members settled in the Niagara region in 1786 many from New Jersey in Sussex County, the same county in which Hannah was born. As Quaker’s they disavowed anything to do with violence and hence took no active part in the Revolutionary War. This stance of neutrality had members suffer double taxation and the loss of some civil rights – and…