Mohawk tribe

1) Name of Tribe The name of the tribe is Choctaw. 2) Name of Culture Group The Choctaw were part of “The Five Civilized Tribes”. This name was used by the white settlers to refer to the Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Seminole and Choctaw tribes of the Southeast. These five tribes were early converts to Christianity. They were probably called this because the members of the tribes were mostly farmers and because they lived in settled towns with government systems which Europeans and early…

King Philips War was the last Native American attempt to push off the invading whites from America. Their efforts were left in vain; however, it did inflate the most destruction on a white population in American history. The Native Americans problems and reasons for getting rid of the colonists were based from the lack of land, since more settlers kept pouring into their region, and competition for resources needed for survival. Nevertheless, the biggest problem, and what I believe became the…

the name became Iroquois. The Iroquois Confederacy, also known as the Iroquois League was a northern American confederacy or alliance composed of five tribes in the seventh century. The Iroquois Confederation was known as the strongest confederation of the indigenous people. The Tribes They were originally composed of five nations which were the Mohawk, meaning “people of the flint" but within the League they were known as the "keepers of the eastern door." The Oneida, were called "people of…

Creek Tribe I am talking about the Creek Tribe. I was fascinated that an ancient Indian tribe, the Creek Indians still live in America. The Creeks live in a warm climate near rivers and this affected their clothes, food and protection. I am finding out about how their location influenced their way of life. The Creek’s location, climate, food and clothing. The location of the Creek tribe is near the Mississippi River…

written and in a format which makes available decades of documents. Allan Greer’s readers are provided with this text to study the past as historians do. The major focus is the cohabitation between French missionaries and Montagnais, Hurons and Mohawks. Many of the experiences tell of war, medicine and nature. Acceptance of the missionaries’ accounts as well as the quotations from the Native Americans is what Allan Greer is presenting to the modern reader. His text covers in depth, maps of…

particular helped form the foundation we now know as the United States of America. The Iroquois people owned the territory were many English settlers planted their flags. Throughout their early history the Iroquois struggled as many other Native American tribes. However after a long period of harmony greed, revenge, and the participation in the Revolutionary War forever changed the fate of a power people. The exploration of Iroquois and American history weaves a story of peace, pain, and…

that was made ended the war between the nations and made them stronger against their enemies. Main fact two: Each person in the nation had a role and no one was left out. Evidence: Within the confederacy, each nation had a role. for example, the Mohawks were the keepers of the eastern door. The keepers of the western door were the Seneca. The nations…

A powerful detached tribe of the Iroquoian family, formerly holding the whole mountain region of the south Alleghenies, in southwest Virginia, western North Carolina and South Carolina, north Georgia, east Tennessee, and northeast Alabama, and claiming even to the Ohio River.This is the Cherokee word for God. Sometimes Cherokee people today also refer to the Creator as the "Great Spirit," a phrase which was borrowed from other tribes of Oklahoma. Unetlanvhi is considered to be…

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…

Republic was comprised of 5 Indian tribes, namely, Seneca, Mohawks, Oneidas, Cayugas and Onondagas (Minahan 20). Later on, the Republic was joined by another tribe, Tuscarora to become the League of 6 Nations. The purpose for establishing the Iroquois Republic was based on the need to foster peace among the Indian community as the groups had engaged in bloody feuds in the past decades. According to Minahan (23), the above Nations were subdivided into smaller tribes or families represented by…