The real Hiawatha united Mohawks & 4 other tribes into this confederation
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Great Peacemaker - Wikipedia  The Great Peacemaker (Skennenrahawi in Mohawk), sometimes referred to as Deganawida or ... The Great Peacemaker's follower Hiawatha, an Onondaga renowned for his ... survival, the Mohawk became the founding tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy. ... This confederacy influenced the United States Constitution and...
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Hiawatha facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  Dekanawida and Hiawatha also visited the Seneca and other tribes to the west, but ... Each nation in the confederacy was represented symbolically: the Mohawks, who ... The position of chief was hereditary, with appointments made for life by the ... after being repeatedly repulsed and then attacked by the five united Iroquois...
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Iroquois - Wikipedia  The Iroquois or Haudenosaunee are a historically powerful and important northeast Native ... The Iroquois have absorbed many other peoples into their cultures as a ... The League was composed of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, .... For this reason, origin tales tend to emphasize Deganawidah and Hiawatha...
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Hiawatha - Wikipedia  Hiawatha was a pre-colonial Native American leader and co-founder of the Iroquois Confederacy. Depending on the version of the narrative, he was a leader of the Onondaga, or the Mohawk or both. According to some versions, he was born an Onondaga, but adopted into the Mohawk. ... Successive other scholars who mention it were (chronologically): Paul A. W....
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Iroquois Confederacy | American Indian confederation | Britannica.com  Jun 29, 2016 ... Confederation of five (later six) Indian tribes across upper New York state that ... who is said to have persuaded Hiawatha, an Onondaga living among Mohawks, ... righteousness, and the great law as sanctions for confederation. .... the Iroquois and the United States each pledged not to disturb the other in...
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Summary of Native American Tribes - A-4 - Legends of America  These Indians lived from A.D. 1 to the 14th century in the Four Corners region of ... Ani-Stohini/Unami - Part of the Algonquian-language family, this tribe lived lived in the ... "Apache" is most likely derived from pachu, a Zuni name for "enemy. ... Apalachee - Considered Spanish explorers to have been the most advanced...
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History - New York Federal-State-Tribal Courts And Indian Nations ...  Cayuga  Oneida  Onondaga  St. Regis Mohawk  Seneca  Tonawanda ... for the Second Circuit, only the Oneida Indian Nation, St. Regis Mohawk Tribe,...
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The Aborigines - History of the Great Lakes. Volume I  North of Lake Huron, through the Michigan peninsula and thence into northern ... When driven from their homes by the Iroquois, as will be noticed hereafter, the ... themselves on the Black river, near the present city of La Crosse, Wisconsin. ... fairest maiden of their tribe, sending her over the falls in a white canoe filled with...
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Wabanaki Confederacy - Wikipedia  The Wabanaki Confederacy are a First Nations and Native American confederation of five principal nations: the Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Abenaki, and Penobscot. ... The sacred Council Fire was lit again, and embers from the fire have been kept burning continually since .... Bangor Daily News  BDN Maine.
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The Iroquois Constitution  During the bi-centennial year of The Constitution of the United States, a number of ... Centuries later, Longfellow "borrowed" the name of Hiawatha to be his hero in a ... I plant it in your territory, Adodarhoh, and the Onondaga Nation, in the territory .... The War Chief shall now address the women of the deposed Lord and say:.
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Tenskwatawa - Ohio History Central  Tenskwatawa (also known as The Prophet), a member of the Shawnee nation, ... Many scholars believe that his brother, Tecumseh, had learned of the eclipse ... Tecumseh was away, recruiting other American Indians to join his confederation.
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Last of the Mohicans E-Text | CHAPTER 32 | GradeSaver  received the fire of his enemies in line; and then causing .... was given, and a dozen Hurons fell by a discharge from Chingachgook and his band. ..... of the Mohicans is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
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Iroquois Confederacy - Native Indian Tribes  ... of 5 tribes consisting of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca ... The union created a powerful alliance of related Iroquoian tribes and peoples. The Iroquois Confederacy was also known as the "League of Peace and Power". ... The Oneida tribe lived east of Lake Ontario, around Oneida Lake - Granite...
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Five Civilized Tribes - Wikipedia  The term "Five Civilized Tribes" derives from the colonial and early federal period. It refers to five Native American nationsthe Cherokee, Chickasaw, ... The most infamous removal was the Cherokee Trail of Tears of 1838, when ... But it has been conceived to be impracticable to civilize the Indians of North America  This...
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Tribal Distribution and Settlements of the Fuegians ... - JStor  the canoe Indians, as they are called by the English, call themselves. "Alookooloop" and that they live in "the chainnels between the Magellan. Straits and the .... group, who are the best formed; the Lennox Islanders, big-headed, ugly, powerful...
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Glossary Of Indian Names  Algonquin - A language, stock name of my tribes of the N.E.                  U.S., usually .... Hiawatha - Chief of the Mohawks who formed the Five Nations, Famous .... Minnehha - "Laughing Waters", names of waterfall, Longfellow's heroine. .... a Potawatomi Chief who sold the land on which Chicago stands to the white man,...
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Native American Government: The West  FREE Native American ...  The Hohokams lived in permanent villages of up to several hundred people. ... Each village had a chief, a subchief, and a council who were responsible for governing ... Some Columbia River societies, such as the Sanpoil, selected a special officer ... The Salmon Chief held authority only during the fishing season and was...
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In Search of Hiawatha - History in the Margins  Jan 8, 2013 ... ... Hiawatha was the fictional hero of a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem: ... Perhaps Longfellow's mythical Indian chief wasn't so mythical after all ... of the Iroquois Confederacy in the 16th (or possibly 15th) century, ... in his journal that it was another name for the same personage. ... Take your choice.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Biography and Works. Search Texts ...  Longfellow's Hiawatha shares the name of the real Mohawk Indian Chief Hiawatha ... and was instrumental in the formation of the Iroquois League of Five Nations. ... Longfellow enjoyed international acclaim during his lifetime and today Song of ... Oxford Universities, indicative of his popularity outside of the United States.
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Great Plains Indians *** - Native Indian Tribes  The other tribes of the Great Plains Indians known to inhabit the area were the Arikara, Assiniboin, Cherokee, Chippewa, Dakota (Sioux), Delaware, Fox, Gros Ventre, Hidatsa, Illinois, Iowa, Iroquois, Kansa, Kickapoo, Kiowa, Kiowa Apache, Miami, Mandan, Missouri, Munsee, Ojibwa, Omaha, Osage, Otoe, Ottawa, Peoria, Ponca ...
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The Cherokees vs. Andrew Jackson | History | Smithsonian  Mar 3, 2011 ... A Creek chief named Big Warrior told him a faction of his tribe had ... the Cherokees joined them, both to protect their own interests and to .... It was GOING to happen. .... If Jackson did today what he did in the 1830's, he would he would be ... if they didn't leave Ga. the Cherokee tribe would be exterminated.