Iroquois Essays

Simply put, the Iroquois were the most important native group in North American history. Culturally, however, there was little to distinguish them from their Iroquian-speaking neighbors. The Iroquois had matrilineal social structures - the women owned all property and determined kinship. After marriage, a man moved into his wife's longhouse, and their children became members of her clan. Iroquois villages were generally fortified and large. The distinctive, communal longhouses of the different clans

The Iroquois Constitution is a political document which the mystic and prophet Dekanawidah, someone who travelled from village to village to urge their residents to stop fighting and join together, establishes the Iroquois Confederacy. The document was originally, not a document at all. The Iroquois were bound together by the Great Binding Law (or Great Law of Peace), which was an oral recitation passed down from generation to generation. The memories of these speeches were recorded in wampum shells

The Iroquois creation story is a renowned Native American myth written by a Tuscarora historian, David Cusick. He is also the author of David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations, which is known to be the first Indian-written history printed in the English language (Radus). The Iroquois creation myth exists in twenty-five other versions. It describes how the world was created from the Native American perspective. It begins with a sky woman who falls down into the dark world. She

The Iroquois Confederacy, also named League, is the organization of six tribes, including Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora, which lived in the northeastern woodland and shared common culture and language. In ancient time, the five tribes that are Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca, were always fighting to each other. At that time, Deganawidah, a man came from Huron in the north, travelled among the Iroquois and, through roof hole, he saw a man prepared to cook a victim

The Iroquois Constitution In the passage The Iroquois Constitution it is obvious that historical dilemmas would occur throughout the story and it talks about how this tribe was able to overcome it. In the passages that we read before it showed the Natives as being some sort of salvages or people who like to stir up trouble. Some may say that they had a very derogatory mood or way of living as well. When we look over this passage we see that the natives could have became pretty flagrant towards

The Iroquois creation story is a renowned Native American myth written by a Tuscarora historian, David Cusick. He is also the author of David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations, which is known to be the first Indian-written history printed in the English language (Radus). The Iroquois creation myth exists in twenty-five other versions. It describes how the world was created from the Native American perspective. It begins with a sky woman who falls down into the dark world. She

between Pueblo tribes before colonization. He does, however provide a detailed overview and explanation of the Iroquois Great League of Peace. Before the Great League of Peace there was constant conflict between the tribes (Calloway, 52). Calloway writes that Hiawatha, an Onondaga chieftain “…chose to break the cycle of vengeance and violence and create a new world order for the Iroquois” (Calloway, 53). The Onondagas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Cayugas, and Senecas all agreed to be peaceful and come together

In the Iroquois Confederacy, politics were run through a Council. Richard Blanchard notes that the Council was in charge of the external affairs of the Confederacy and matters that were common to all of the tribes, but could not regulate the internal affairs of each tribe (9). The political structure of the Iroquois is very similar to that of the US Congress, with a two-house legislature. The representatives from each tribe were called sachems, and though the sachems were men, powerful women in the

Iroquois Confederacy Background Guide History and Practices of the Iroquois Confederacy When the French, Dutch, and English began to penetrate present-day upstate New York in the early seventeenth century, they encountered the remarkable political system of the Hodenosaunee or “People of the Longhouse.” Five Iroquoian nations (in the 18th century it became six) - the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas - occupied the region form the Hudson valley in the east to Lake Erie in the west

Iroquois Versus United States Constitution The Iroquois Constitution by Dekanawida heavily influenced Madison’s United States Constitution as evidenced by Comparing Powers, Selecting chief statesmen/representative and Qualifications of chief statesmen/representative. The Powers in the United States constitution is very different from the iroquois constitution, because in the United States their powers are divided up into two sections the house and the senate when the powers of the iroquois constitution

I would like to have lived in Iroquoian tribe society because of the location, its success in cultivating corn, and several fundamentals of its society. First of all, the Iroquois tribe inhabited the areas of New York between the Adirondack Mountains and Niagara Falls. I used to live in northeastern, upstate New York, area. So, I am much attached emotionally attached to this place. Next, Iroquoian tribe can solve the problem of food through their successful cultivating corn and other crops such as

consisted of the Onondaga, Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida, and Cayuga tribes. When the Iroquoian-speaking Tuscarora joined the Iroquois Confederacy in 1722, they became known as the Six Nations. The Six Nations were not powerful enough to withstand the stronghold of the American Revolutionary War. The Iroquois were forced to divide

Higham, Chris AP History AP United States History (b. In what ways did the encounter between European settlers and Native Americans have devastating consequences for the Natives?) “The Beaver Wars” (1640’s- 1652) For the longest time the French and British never liked each other whether it is in Europe or the New World makes no difference. The biggest export in the New World was beaver skin and the imperial powers of Britain and France agreed on that. To secure access to Beaver breeding grounds

of settler colonization during the 17th century, the Iroquois nation, rather known as the Haudenosaunee people, faced growing pressure to maintain legal traditions over time. The Iroquois practiced "the Great Law of Peace," or Kainerekowa, which is known as a "complex and sophisticated" legal tradition (Borrows, 73). Along with the Great Law of Peace, the Two Row Wampum, also recognized as the Gus Wen Tah, were important foundations of Iroquois customs. The legal tradition has been maintained till

The cayuga tribe is one of the important neihbars of the cayuga tribe were the other Iroquois nations the Seneca,Onotribe, but once the alliance was formed they were loyal to eah other. The Cayuga tribe is undag,Oneita,and Monhark. Before the Iroquois confederacy the Cayugas sometimes fought wars with the others Iroquois sally location in new York state many people still live there today there are others forced to Wisconsin, Okahoma, And on tara Canda . They

Greer’s work, he is able to convince the relations between colonist and the Native Americans were not always as forceful as depicted; Catherine Tekakwitha is an exemplification to this theory. Catherine was the daughter of a Algonquin woman and an Iroquois father.

lecture notes and the material from the readings. Thesis Statement Although there is some misinformation about the Adena Society and some confusing or incomplete information about the Iroquois and the French explorer Henri DeTonti, a closer look at the overall history of the Adena, as well as the overall history of the iroquois, and comparing the lecture notes to the actual historical information contained in the readings, will show that the lecture notes are historically accurate. II. Misinformation

There are many histories about the Mohawk because of some of the things they did. One of the main history that have been recorded was joining the Iroquois confederacy because it reunited six of the most powerful tribes so they can stop the war and have peace (Ryan F. Marla and Linda Schmittroth 8). The five tribes that united is Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, and Cavugatrie. Later on the Tuscarora

Some Iroquois Indians moved to Pennsylvania in search for new land, and in 1750, Seneca Indians left their Iroquois homeland, and joined the Cayuga tribe in Ohio, where they later became the Mingo Indians. In 1774, while Chief Logan was on a hunting trip with his family, white settlers killed him. This was very

APUSH SAQ 1.) The reason that this confederacy was established was to maintain and keep important traditions alive in these 5 later 6 tribes in the state of what is now present day New York. Some of the goals of this confederacy were to, improve trade, strengthen alliances with neighboring tribes against foreign nations, share agricultural techniques, capture land, and improve trade. In terms of how successful they were, overtime some tribes established alliances with European nations causing tension