IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY by Loretta Hall OVERVIEW The Iroquois Confederacy‚ an association of six linguistically related tribes in the northeastern woodlands‚ was a sophisticated society of some 5‚500 people when the first white explorers encountered it at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The 1990 Census counted 49‚038 Iroquois living in the United States‚ making them the country’s eighth most populous Native American group. Although Iroquoian tribes own seven reservations in New York
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Britain and its American colonies? Document 1 NORTH AMERICA BEFORE 1754 Use the documents and your knowledge of the period 1740-1766 in constructing your response. Document 2 Source: Canassatego‚ Chief of the Onondaga Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy‚ speech to representatives of Pennsylvania‚ Maryland and Virginia‚ 1742. We know our Lands are now become more valuable. The white People think we do not know their Value: but we are sensible that the Land is everlasting‚ and the few
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Enculturation term anthropologists and psychologists use to descrive the deveopement‚ through the direct and indirect influence of parents and others‚ of children;s patterns of begavior socialization same as enculturation compatibility-‐with-‐child-‐ care theory Womens tasks have traditionally been those that do not remove the woman from the household due to taks only woman can perform for children (breast feeding for 2 or more years) economy of effort theory if effort is expended
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expanding into that area. Another important factor in this war‚ were the Native Americans of that area‚ who lived there and wanted to establish a presence as traders there. While most Native Americans sided the French‚ the most powerful native group‚ the Iroquois Confederacy allied with the British. The beginning of the war started when the VA government sent a militia under Geroge washingotn to challenge French expansion. Washington created Fort Necessity‚ and
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HIST 121 SAMPLE TEST (Chap. 1-6) revMT 1. One distinctive characteristic of the society of the Iroquois Indians was the A) peaceful nature of their society. B) unusually high status and importance accorded Iroquois women. C) lack of agriculture. D) construction of huge and elaborate stone pyramids. 2. The Aztec culture was famous for its A) ritualized human sacrifice. B) peaceful nature. C) written constitution. D) representative government. 3. A disease that may have originated
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When it comes to American literature‚ most people think of only the stories that Americans have written throughout American history. They do not think of the Native Americans or the European explorers and settlers that lived in and explored the land. Many of their stories and literature are hard to find‚ translate‚ and research since it was a long time ago. However‚ the natives‚ the settlers‚ and the explorers have literature that is just as much of a big part of American literature than any other
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Include evidence from the story to support your opinion. CHOOSE 10 words from the story that are new to you. Using the dictionary‚ write each word and its definition. WRITE A POEM about your favorite character. RESEARCH and CREATE A POSTER about the Iroquois Indians. Include pictures and information about their families‚ food‚ homes‚ clothing‚ and lifestyle. Point Completed Maximum 20 10 10 20 20 10 20 10 10 20 ©2011abcteach.com Reading/Comprehension/The Indian In The Cupboard
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tribes didn’t take to the intruders as well as other tribes did. They took some time getting organized due to tribes usually fighting against each other but by the 1600s‚ according to West Virginia Archive & History‚ a Confederacy was created. The Iroquois Confederacy. They fought to get their land back. Did they win? Obviously not. But they didn’t go down without a fight. Afro Americans had a big issue as well when they first arrived in the Americas. In 1619 when the first “slaves” arrived‚ even
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Kinship That Matters Since the inception of anthropology in the second half of the 19th century‚ kinship has been its buzzword. Scholars have studied kinship systems of distant cultures and proposed many definitions of it‚ yet‚ up to now there is no satisfactory definition that everyone would agree on. Moreover‚ being focused on studying and analyzing “others”‚ anthropologists turned their attention to themselves and to the “Western”1 world not so long ago—thus‚ a great deal of inquiries into the
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territory throughout the eastern coastline (Document A). The colonists began to settle on the land beyond the Appalachian Mountains‚ which resulted in tensions with the Natives who primarily resided there. Canassatego‚ chief of the Onondaga Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy‚ delivered a speech to the representatives of Pennsylvania‚ Maryland‚ and Virginia. In the speech‚ he speaks with an accusatory tone as he is angered by the unrightfully settling of the American colonists (Document B). He sees the white
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