Robert Hieronimus devotes thefirst chapter of his bookto theLeague of the Iroquoisthat was already in place before the Founders ever arrived, and suggests that the form of government used in this “League” between several Indian nations ma...
From the Adirondacks to the Great Lakes, in what is now Pennsylvania and upper New York, lived the most powerful of the northeastern tribes, the League of the Iroquois, which included the Mohawks (People of the Flint), Oneidas (People of the Stone), Onondagas (People of the Mountain),...
[Sidenote: He attacks the Iroquois. _Explorers_, 269-278.] 27. Champlain and his Work.–The most famous of these colonists was Champlain. He sailed along the coast southward and westward as far as Plymouth. As he passed by the mouth of Boston harbor, a mist hung low over the water, ...
Their alliance with the Huron, however, made them the enemies of the Iroquois, who forced the Ottawa to flee to the islands off Green Bay. After a few years some moved on to Keweenaw Bay in Lake Superior, while another section joined the Huron and went to the Mississippi near Lake Pepin...
as appeared in the Dec-Jan 2015 issue ofHistory Magazine Spring 1609: With just two Frenchmen, 60 natives, and anarquebus à rouet—a wheel-lock musket—Samuel de Champlain(center)defeats 200 Iroquois warrors at Ticonderoga, NY, “When I saw them making a move to fire at us, I rested ...
What happened to John White's colony? What caused the Lakota culture to suffer? What happened to the Aboriginal people when the First Fleet arrived? What happened to the Puritans in America? What did the Pilgrims give to Massasoit? What did the Iroquois Confe...
For Woolford, like Duncan and the Iroquois, is an expert in navigating the forests. As the powerful elite in England try to cement their control over their wayward colony through the Stamp Tax, Duncan is drawn into the power play that threatens everything he holds dear. As he begins his ...
lived along its shores were hostile and would surely kill him and his employers. One of the prisoners the Iroquois held in their camp at that time was a young warrior from the west who could easily have guided the Frenchmen to their destination. Rather than hand this brave over to the ...
Félix Martin, was closely associated with Catherine's village of Caughnawaga in the second half of the 19th century and is remembered for his historical writings. This biography of St. Kateri is the same as appears in volume 7-2 in the Misisons series (Catherine Tegakoutha: Iroquois ...
Who co-founded the Iroquois Confederacy? What are the Sioux called in their own language? Who were the leaders of the Apache tribe? Who were some important Native Americans in the Revolutionary War? Who started the First War of Indian Independence? Who lived in the Back Hills before the Lako...