Iroquois Vs Beaver

The Beaver

During the mid-17th century, one of the bloodiest conflicts in North American history was between the Iroquois Confederacy and many of the tribes that were situated throughout the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes region, including Hurons, the northern Algonquians, and their French allies. Monopolizing of the fur trade in that region by the Iroquois was the main purpose of the conflict. Before American pelts were booming on the market, Europeans had obtained furs from Russia and
Scandinavia. And during the 16th century, Basque fisherman overwhelmed with the
Newfoundland frost began bartering with the natives in that region and got hold of choice beaver fur, decades before any European settlement or trading post was
established

Since the late 18th and first half of the 19th century, they were six different North
American tribes; the Cayuga Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and Tuscarora.
These Nations have had beliefs in tribal sovereignty and a collective body they call a “league”. These Leagues had a supra level affirmation of sovereignty of the two leagues between Onondaga and New York. The Iroquois is the only sovereignty in existence of individual tribal governments. The Iroquois Confederation, led by the
Mohawk, mobilized against the largely Algonquian-speaking tribes of the Great
Lakes region. The Iroquois were armed by their Dutch and English trading partners; the Algonquian were backed by the French, their chief trading partner.

As the Iroquois destroyed several large tribal confederacies—including the Huron,
Susquehannock, and Shawnee, they became dominant in the region and broadened their territory, let me tell you. They forced some eastern tribes to the west of the
Mississippi River, or southward into the Carolinas. The Iroquois gained control of the Ohio Valley lands as hunting ground, from 1670 until their downfall. Native people as refugees in the Ohio territory and the lower bits of Michigan