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The Iroquois Native Americans traded furs with the Dutch colonists at New Amsterdam by traveling through the Detroit River.
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Iroquois and Native
The band name is a portmanteau of " jam session " and " iroquai ", based on the Iroquois, a Native American tribe.
As the power of the Iroquois waned during the last quarter of the 17th century, several other, mainly Anishinaabe Native American tribes, displaced them from the territories they claimed on the north shore of the lake.
Many North American Native Peoples ( such as the Cree, Iroquois, Huron, Navajo, and others ) were and still are largely panentheistic, conceiving of God as both confined in God's existence in Creation but also transcendent from it.
The Iroquois Native Americans interpreted Alioth, Mizar, and Alkaid as three hunters pursuing the Great Bear.
The three sisters method used by Native Americans ( specifically the Haudenosaunee / Iroquois ) grew squash, beans and corn together so that the plants enhanced each other's growth.
Prior to and immediately after European settlement, the land today comprising Lancaster and Fairfield County, Ohio was inhabited variously by the Shawnee, Iroquois, Wyandot, and other Native American tribes.
The word ' Adirondack ' is a Native American expression applied to the Algonquians by the Iroquois, who intended it as a derogatory name meaning ' the ones who eat bark '.
He treated the Poles with contempt and likened the " slovenly Polish trash " in newly occupied West Prussia to Iroquois, the historic Native American confederacy based in the state of New York.
While retaining their tribal governance, which included a constitution or official council in tribes such as the Iroquois and Cherokee, many portions of the southeastern Native American nations had become partially or completely economically integrated into the economy of the region.
The area around present-day Columbia was originally populated by Native American tribes, most notably the Susquehannocks, who migrated to the area between 1575 and 1600 after separating from the Iroquois Confederacy.
The Governor of Virginia, as well as the young military commander George Washington, met in the town with their Iroquois allies ( called the " Half-Kings "), to coordinate maneuvers against the French and their Native American allies during the French and Indian War.
Much of the mythology of the Iroquois ( a confederacy of originally Five, later Six Nations of Native Americans ) has been lost.
The name, " Otisco ," derives from the Native American ( Iroquois ), Us-te-ke, meaning " bitter-nut-hickory.
By 1808, there were reports of more than five hundred Shawnee, Seneca of the Iroquois, and Mingo Native Americans living at Wapakoneta, including Black Hoof.
Before white settlers arrived, there was a small village of Native Americans living there from the Turtle Clan of the Iroquois Nation.
In the early 18th century, a tribal confederacy known as the Six Nations of the Iroquois, headquartered in New York, ruled the Indian ( Native American ) tribes of Pennsylvania, including those who lived near what would become Lock Haven.
Native Americans living or hunting in the area during the 18th century included the Iroquois, Lenape and Shawnee.
Like much of the region, Greensboro can trace its roots back to Native American settlement, to the Mingo tribes of the Northern Iroquois.
* before 1770-Area inhabited by Native Americans ( possibly Lenape, Iroquois, and / or Saponi )
He was the son of Henry Jackson Sr., a sharecropper of African American, Irish and Native American descent and America Jackson, an Iroquois Native American.
The original settlement was known as Saint Régis, presumably after the Catholic saint of the same name and was founded by Catholic Native American Iroquois from Caughnawaga Quebec in about 1755.
Schin-han-dowi, the " River Through the Spruces "; On-an-da-goa, the " River of High Mountains " or " Silver-Water "; and an Iroquois word for " Big Meadow ", have all been proposed by Native American etymologists.
Logan the Orator ( c. 1723 ?– 1780 ) was a Native American orator and war leader born in the Iroquois Confederacy.
Iroquois and Americans
The Shawnee came from the Ohio Country, where they had been under pressure before the American Revolution from aggressive Iroquois and later encroaching European Americans.
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of fishing by the Huron and Iroquois peoples in the area over 4, 000 years ago as well as sites used by Native Americans for hundreds of years for trading, hunting, and fishing.
Thousands of Iroquois and other pro-British Native Americans were expelled from New York and other states and resettled in Canada.
The violence of the frontier warfare added to the rebel Americans ' hatred of the Iroquois and soured relations for 50 years.
The Treaty of Fort Stanwix ( 1784 ) was signed on October 22, to serve as a peace treaty between the Americans and the Iroquois, but it forced the cession of most Iroquois land, as well as greater lands of other tribes to the west and south.
The region was home to native Americans belonging to the Seneca people of the Iroquois confederacy.
The region was home to Native Americans belonging to the Seneca people of the Iroquois confederacy.
The region that the town now occupies was originally settled by the Algonquian and Iroquois Native Americans in the 14th century.
In historic times, for centuries it had been territory inhabited by the Seneca Native Americans, one of the powerful five tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy.
Native Americans called this winding water " Cuyahoga ," which means " crooked river " in the Iroquois language.
Teyoninhokovrawen ( John Norton ( Mohawk chief ) | John Norton ) played a prominent role in the War of 1812, leading Iroquois warriors from Grand River into battle against Americans.
The New York Mohawks — an Iroquois tribe, traditional enemies of many of the warring tribes — proceeded to raid isolated groups of Native Americans in Massachusetts, scattering and killing many.
From July to August 1764, Johnson negotiated a treaty at Fort Niagara with about 2, 000 Native Americans in attendance, primarily Iroquois.
Johnson even convinced the Iroquois to send a war party against the Ohio Native Americans.
They named him Tayadaowuhkuh, meaning " bridging the gap " ( between the Iroquois and the European Americans.
In colonial times the river valley was a major trade route through the hill country of western New York, first for the Iroquois and other Native Americans, and later for the European settlers.
Iroquois and traded
Cornmeal was traded for with Iroquois, Algonquin, and Abenaki First Nations peoples, and made into apon ( cornbread ), which sometimes also included oat or wheat flour when it became available.
The Kaskaskia struggled with the Iroquois, who were armed with guns seized from or traded by Europeans in the eastern United States.
The Dutch also offered better prices than the French and traded firearms, hatchets and knives to the Iroquois in exchange for furs.
The Iroquois traded excess corn and tobacco for the pelts from the tribes to the north and the wampum from the tribes to the east.
The Iroquois also traded for alcohol, a substance they did not have before the arrival of Europeans.
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