Mohawk tribe

Massachusetts, a little town of Deerfield, where the family of Pastor John Williams and others are subject to a massacre from the French and Mohawk Indians. Williams, his wife, and three of his children are then taken hostage to Canada. As the book goes on, Williams and two of his children are released; however, his daughter Eunice is kept in captivity with a tribe of Indians. Demos constructs this book as stories told by Williams about faith, captivity, and family. Demos in “The…

The Native American culture is based on an oral tradition, passed down by the elders of a tribe generation to generation. The elders were central to the survival of the Native American culture; teaching the children the history and traditions of their ancestors. In 1645, after disease visited Martha’s Vineyard, a survivor lamented that all the…

The relationship between Great Britain and the colonists had always been confounding. The pioneers were loyal supporters of King George on a mission to explore the new found land and bring glory and fame to Britain. The pioneers were met by the native people of America, also known as Native Americans or Indians. Some kept peaceful relationships with the Native Americans and others sought the path of war. The English settlers were impeding upon the Native Americans’ land and this ultimately…

For Native Americans, women played a bigger role in their tribes. They farmed while the men hunted. Many of them had a public voice and helped their tribes on deciding whether an alliance with the patriots or loyalists would be best for them. Indian women had to worry about their “social role being dramatically changed and their power within their communities diminishing” (107) if the Americans won the war. Molly Brant, a Mohawk Indian who married Sir William Johnson, had a powerful political…

of the tribes. Of course, these are not the only female characters in these two creation stories, but they do give one insight into how these two cultures value women or at least how they value the role of women in their cultures. There are other versions of the Iroquois creation story where the “lead” female character doesn’t die, so one shouldn’t take this version as the definitive role of women within the Iroquois tribe. Merritt Johnson, an artist who is of mixed ancestry, including Mohawk,…

The Seven Year War was between the French and British when France’s extension into the Ohio River brought a series of battles that led to British declaring war in 1756. Cost of the war had caused Britain to go into a debt of £133 million by borrowing from (whoever they borrowed from). To help solve this issue, British politicians had decided to tax their colonies throughout the globe. The American colonies, however, weren’t in favor of this. American colonies were in an economic depression, due…

The New York Colony was one of the 13 colonies located on the Atlantic coast of North America. The original 13 colonies were divided into three areas, The New England, The Middle and The Southern colonies. The New York Colony was one of the Middle Colonies. It began as the Dutch trading outpost. In 1664, King Charles II gave the land in between New England and Virginia, to his brother James, the Duke of York. Dutch traders already occupied much of this land and landowners The English engaged and…

The Dutch settled in New Netherland, which extended from (today’s states) the upstate New York down to the south of Delaware (Jones 33). As these groups settled in their part of the northeastern coastal region of America, the Native Indian tribes were gradually pushed away from their original territory. The English and Dutch had their own different approach to settling in America. When it came to occupational status the English focused mainly on farming, whereas the Dutch were more into trading-…

The Northeast was home to several different Native American tribes. Among the groups of Northeast Native Americans were the Iroquois, which were the second largest group in the area. The meaning of the word “Iroquois” is unknown. What is also unclear is the Iroquois origins and exactly when the Iroquois League (League of the Longhouse or People of the Longhouse) first started. Sometime between the 1400’s and 1600’s the formation of the Iroquois League began as a result of multiple wars. Iroquois…

The relationship between Britain and the colonies was evolving as time went on. As it first started the colonies thought they were better off by standing as individual colonies because it would be better for each colony to handle its own governing instead of becoming one united unit. They hoped this would eliminate Britain from gaining too much authority against the colonies. This may have worked for some time, but British had a war to pay for and started to tax the colonies to pay their debt…