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Spoke A Form Iroquois Indians Tribes
665 wordsThe Iroquois Indians were a tribe that was from upstate New York. Archeological evidence indicates that they were living ever since about 1100 AD, which was long before the Europeans ever arrived there. The Onondaga were the first of the Iroquois tribes that can be positively identified in New York and seems to have begun after the merger of two villages sometime between 1450 and 1475. The Iroquois Indians originally lives around Lake Ontario. At around 1600 A. D. , five Iroquois tribes banded t...
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Chingachgook And Uncas British Troops French
722 wordsThe film is set in 1757, the third year of war between England and France for the possession of the continent. The center of the story is the most notorious event of the French and Indian War; the s 0 -called 'massacre' of British troops, women and children by General Montcalm's Indian allies after the British surrender of Fort William Henry to the French on 9 th August 1757. The Struggle between the French and English for control of North America became apparent in the late 1600 s. The buffer b...
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William Henry Fort William
1,782 wordsThe book begins in the middle of the French and Indian War in upper New York State near the Hudson River and Lake Chaplain. General Webb has just gotten word from an Indian that Montcalm and the French are going to attack Fort William Henry and that Colonel Munro will not be ale to keep the fort because he only has one thousand men and that he (Webb) needs to send reinforcements immediately. Upon hearing this, he ordered fifteen hundred men to be ready to march at dawn and has Cora and Alice Mun...
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League Of The Iroquois Iroquois Indians Tribes
1,262 wordsBefore the white man the story of Iroquois Indians began long before the white explorers, traders, and settlers reached the shores of the New World. The Iroquois originally lived in some unknown part of the North America. According to legend, these Indians were instructed by the Great Spirit to move into the Northeast. There they carved a territory for themselves in the middle of a rival group of Indians, the Algonquins. The Iroquois settled in beautiful and rich lands of northern New York State...
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False Face Hudson River
1,261 words... The woman also made clay pots for cooking and storage, clay pots had round bodies and raised, square collars or rims. After the arrival of the white men, the women bartered for the sturdy brass kettles to replace the clay pots. Wampum-Beads That Talked. When the word wampum is mentioned, people often think of money, its true wampum was used like money to barter for goods, which happened in the 1600 s after the Dutch set up trading post along the Hudson River. The Indians of the Atlantic coas...
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U S Constitution Third Party
751 wordsThe Constitutions of both the Iroquois and the United States have similarities and differences between them. The Iroquois constitution came earlier in history than the U. S one did. Some of the same ideas that were in the Iroquois constitution were carried over to some of the ideas that we use in our government today. In this paper I will compare and contrast these ideas as they relate with one another. Ideas like Vito Power, When a Leader Gets Sick, 3 Branches of Government, A Bicameral Legisla...
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Counter Reformation Short Time
1,305 wordsThe Jesuits missionaries in America faced many problems, one in particular dealt with relations between the missionaries and the Natives. The letter deals with the treatment of prisoners after a brief military engagement and in addition, attempts by the Jesuits to convert the captured Iroquois. The treatment of the prisoners seems benevolent, compared to the past modus operandi used by the Church to hasten conversion. Furthermore, the letter exemplifies the hypocrisy of the missionaries after th...
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Southern Colonies William Penn
1,669 words... have the liberty to conduct their own trade. Also, people such as Edmund Andros restricted the colonies. When he came from England he was set to bring the colonies under effective royal control. He abolished popular assemblies, changed land grant systems and attempted to reinforce Anglicanism. These actions that Andros took were all restrictions of civil liberties. The Great Awakening and The Enlightenment both brought greater knowledge to the colonists. This knowledge lead them to believe a...
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League Of Nations Democratic Government
418 wordsThe Iroquois are an American Indian confederacy of New York originally consisting of the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and Tuscarora tribes. When the constitution of the United States was being written it was proposed that the new government should be formed along the lines of the Iroquois League of Nations, which had been functioning as a democratic government for hundreds of years. The Iroquois had a system that seemed to meet most of the demands put forth by the parties at the deb...
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British And Americans Americans And British
1,493 wordsIroquois in the American Revolution The Iroquois were an important confederacy of North American Indians of the Iroquoian language family and of the Eastern Woodlands culture area. It was founded in the 16 th century in what is now central New York State. The original confederacy consisted of five tribes the Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, and Seneca and was known as the Five Nations, or the League of Five Nations. Sometime between 1715 and 1722, however, the Tuscaroras, an Iroquoian tribe ori...
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British And Americans Americans And British
1,490 wordsThe Iroquois were an important confederacy of North American Indians of the Iroquoian language family and of the Eastern Woodlands culture area. It was founded in the 16 th century in what is now central New York State. The original confederacy consisted of five tribes the Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, and Seneca and was known as the Five Nations, or the League of Five Nations. Sometime between 1715 and 1722, however, the Tuscaroras, an Iroquoian tribe originally of North Carolina, which had...
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Ohio Valley Separate Peace
4,175 wordsThe Kickapoo Indians The Kickapoo Indians are Algonkian-speaking Indians, related to the Sauk and Fox, who lived at the portage between the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, probably in present Columbia County, Wis. , U. S. , when first reported by Europeans in the late 17 th century. The Kickapoo were known as formidable warriors whose raids took them over a wide territory, ranging as far as Georgia and Alabama to the southeast; Texas and Mexico to the southwest; and New York and Pennsylvania to the ea...
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Believed That People United States Of America
2,941 wordsOAC Philosophy INDEPENDENT STUDY UNIT The Injustice that Surrounds the America s saprophyte n. someone who associates with a person or organization for the sole purpose of living at the expense of that person or group, without contributing anything to its or their well-being. (see also parasite) Webster s Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1988 Since the beginning of time man has always been an unjust creature with discriminatory laws and a greedy sense of justice. Man has been the virus that has taken an...
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