Tuscarora

The Native Americans suffered many consequences from aiding in the war, but also from European and American actions and illnesses alike following the Revolution. Similar to the invasion of smallpox among rebel soldiers from the British, Native Americans suffered great illnesses from Europeans. Foreign illnesses to the people of North America is estimated to have contributed to up to 80% of the deaths among their population (Native American History). Nonetheless, epidemics were not the only cause…

Native Americans: The Iroquois The Iroquois got their name from one of their enemies the Algonquin, called them the Iroqu (Irinakhoiw) which translate to the "rattlesnakes." Then the French added the suffix "-ois" to it, so 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 first study examined the Jackson Whites of the Ramapo Mountains, which Speck detailed in a 1911 study published in the Southern Workman. Speck suggested that the Ramapo were descendants of eastern Algonquians and Tuscarora Indians who probably traveled through the Ramapo Mountains on their way to the Carolinas during the eighteenth century. In terms of physical appearances, Speck reported to have found “representatives…of all three elements, ranging from apparent full-blooded…

The Columbian Exchange was an encounter between the Native Americans and the Europeans that drastically changed both cultures. Both peoples exchanged items such as cattle, plants, and even some cultural aspects. The effects of the Columbian Exchange reverberated through North America as foreign European ideas became more and more familiar. Crops played a large part in the Exchange. The Native Americans supplied the Europeans with tobacco, maize, beans, tomatoes, and potatoes. These newly…

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…

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The Cherokee nation has been entwined in American history since the discovery of Columbus. From fighting against the Americans in the Revolutionary war to being forced onto the Trail of Tears in the 1800s, from fighting for their land to their large growth in Oklahoma, the Cherokee have had a long and hard existence. They have been influencing american politics and culture for many years. Throughout their vast history the Cherokee have been a great point of culture and tradition in America. To…

In English, this means “People of the Longhouse” but the Haudenosaunee go by many names such as the Iroquois or Six Nations. The Past The Haudenosaunee people are a confederacy of the Kanienkahaka (Mohawk), Oneida, Onondoga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora nations. According to the Canadian Encyclopedia “archeological evidence places Haudenosaunee in the area around present-day New York State by approximately 500 to 600 CE,…

Joseph Bloomfield was appointed captain in the third regiment of the New Jersey militia in 1776, he left his comfortable life and employment to support the Revolutionary war effort. He left behind two journals that held his first hand experiences of participating in The Revolutionary war and what he encountered being a captain in the barracks during this era. The Journals have been read, edited and published by a Mr Mark E. Lender and James Kirby Martin, these are the pages we have been provided…

anywhere if people didn’t come together from every race and sex and fight for collective equality. The workings of Christopher Manes in his piece Nature and silence helps to solidify this gap and the need for this cultural rift to be fixed, stating “A Tuscarora Indian once remarked that, unlike his people’s experience of the world, for Westerners, “the uncounted voices of nature . . . are dumb.” (Manes 1), this is the mentality that Walker used to justify her innocents to the…