escalation of the conflict between the Huron and the Iroquois was founded in the French preference for trade with the Huron and the Huron refusal to trade with the Mohawk‚ a tribe of the Iroquois five nations. The Mohawk where described as “trying to force the Huron to trade with them and ... when their efforts in this direction where unsuccessful‚ did they decide to destroy the Huron” (Trigger 110). In the movie the hate between the Huron and the Iroquois is most palpable in the scene where the Jesuit
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present day Canada and U.S.‚ had a type of stickball or lacrosse. The type of lacrosse more similar to what we play today originated in the Northeast tribes. The most important parts of the Native American game lacrosse is; the sport’s name‚ the Iroquois lacrosse‚ lacrosse rituals‚ equipment‚ and where lacrosse is today. For starters‚ the word lacrosse was not the native
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no time‚ burning crops‚ slaughtering livestock‚ capturing innocent prisoners‚ and desecrating orchards (Whittemore 121-132). By August Commander John Sullivan‚ who lead the main strike‚ was making great time plowing his way through the abandoned Iroquois villages of upstate New York (Timothy 563). Archives suggest that Indians were given word of Sullivan’s lurking presence and fled quickly‚ causing Sullivan to rarely encounter opposition by the time he reached Seneca Lake in early September (U.S
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Iroquois theater fire Introduction Since the inception of human civilization‚ fire has been both a cause of disaster as well as a resource of comfort to man. United States has had a long historical record of fire disasters that have claimed thousands of lives and caused heavy destruction of property. Some of the most disastrous fires in the United States in the 20th century include the Iroquois theater fire in Chicago in 1903‚ general Slocum wheel boat fire in 1904 the Ohio State penitentiary
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Americans don’t use any type of boat for transportation. Many groups used kayaks canoes and boats but one group does not‚ and the Inuit‚ Haida‚ and Iroquois all hunt with bows and arrows but ‚the Inuit live in a more harsh climate‚ the Haida have a legend on how it came to be‚ and the Iroquois don’t use boats. First of all the Haida and I went and Iroquois are alike because they all use a bone arrow to hunt and they hunt a lot of the same things. It is shown in many pictures and stories that It is shown
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trade. The Algonquin and Iroquois tribes would often fight for control of the St. Lawrence River‚ a major waterway and trading route. A major conflict between the Algonquin and Iroquois was the beaver‚ or Iroquois Wars in the 1620’s. “As the [Iroquois] economy became interdependent with the European fur trade‚ the need for pelts exerted pressure on the rich beaver-producing areas south of the Canadian Shield…the [Iroquois] began to exert their military strength” (Iroquois Wars). This caused many Aboriginal
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The Creation Story The Iroquois story and the Judeo-Christian story are very similar stories but they also have very different concepts. Both stories explain how the earth was created and who it was created by. They talk about different beliefs and share their opposing thoughts about certain topics. In the story about the Iroquois it mentions that the earth was started on a turtle’s back and that there was no all-powerful God. Yet the other said that earth was created by an omniscient being called
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Jacques Cartier was born on December 31‚ 1491 in St. Malo. St. Malo is an island seaport on the coast of Brittany. He grew up around the water‚ and was most likely fishing. Jacques spent very little time at home‚ as he was often sailing. In 1520‚ Cartier married Catherine Des Granches. They did not have any kids though. Cartier spoke Portuguese which leads us to think that he may have been on a portuguese ship that explored the coast of South America. Some claim that in 1532‚ Cartier was a master
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MOHAWK INDIANS Native Americans are people who are local to the Americas. They are also known as American Indians. They tend to have light brown skin‚ brown eyes‚ and dark straight hair. The name Indian was first applied to them by Christopher Columbus‚ who mistakenly believed that the mainland and the islands of the Americas were part of the Indies‚ in Asia. The Native Americans of North America are believed to be descendants of the Mongoloids‚ early hunters and gatherers The Last Of The Mohicans
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3 10/18/24 How much does culture impact the way you turn out as a person? Do you think people let it shape them? These questions come from themes explored in the texts “New Orleans” by Joy Harjo and “The World on the Turtle’s Back” a myth of the Iroquois people. These texts are stories which provide a background to the beliefs of the writer and people from the same place. In slight contrast to this‚ “The Gunslinger” by Stephen King‚ strays further from ancestral culture and has stronger uses of literary
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