partnership with Metropolitan State College of Denver El Alma de la Raza Project Exploring Northeast Native Americans: The Iroquois Seneca‚ Cayuga‚Tuscarora‚ Onondaga‚ Oneida and Mohawk By Denise Engstrom‚ M.A.‚ ECE Member of the Tuscarora Nation Contributions by Elizabeth Kawenaa Montour Member of the Mohawk Nation Grades 6–8 Implementation Time for Unit of Study: 4 weeks Denver Public Schools El Alma de la Raza Curriculum and Teacher Training Program Loyola A. Martinez‚ Project
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The Iroquois Constitution forms the first democratic republic and example of sovereign governance by the consent of a people in North American history. The confederacy of the League of Five Nations‚ who constructed the Iroquois Constitution‚ preceded the European colonization. Historical records and references provide evidence of the strong influence the Iroquois legislative process and constitution had on shaping the ideas and words of the US Constitution. Specific and distinct similarities unquestionably
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Iroquois tribe are an indigenous group‚ which was made up of Six Nations in the eighteenth century‚ but is now known as the Five Nations. The Five Nations are Mohawks‚ Oneidas‚ Onondagas‚ Cayugas‚ |Senecas‚ who are presently living in New York State and southern Quebec and Ontario. The Iroquois called themselves‚ Haudenosaunee‚ which means people of the longhouse. Most families in the tribe are related through the female line. The Iroquois didn’t travel from place to place for food‚ very often
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reservations. The people are not averse to adopting new technology when it is beneficial‚ but they want to maintain their own traditional identity. HISTORY The "Five Tribes" that first joined to form the Iroquois Confederacy‚ or League‚ were the Mohawk‚ Oneida‚ Onondaga‚ Cayuga‚ and Seneca (listed in order from east to west according to where they lived in an area that roughly corresponds to central New York state). They called themselves Haudenosaunee (pronounced "hoo-dee-noh-SHAW-nee")‚ or people
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League‚ or Iroquois Confederacy as it later became known in 1722 with the addition of the Tuscarora‚ was one the most dominate Indian presences in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. It originally consisted of the Five Nations of the Mohawk‚ Oneida‚ Onondaga‚ Cayuga and Seneca. The confederacy referred to themselves as the Haudenosaunee‚ or the People of the Longhouse with each tribe playing an important role in controlling and protecting Iroquois land. They were viewed as a warring
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and purple Whampum with strings of white beads and purple whampum fixed to it.(252)” Upon research‚ the wampum is rational shell beads‚ which were used by Native Americans as a form of gift exchange. Which is neat to see how peace offerings and the growing respect each tribe has for one another. He then presented the whampum to Chincanacina‚ the leader of the Cherokee Nation. Following the Mohawks‚ the Deputy of the Ottowas spoke. He also “produced a white belt with some purple figures (252). This
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Seneca Indians: Allies and Enemies Seneca are among the most respected and feared. The Seneca are culturally similar to their Cayuga‚ Onondaga‚ Oneida‚ an Mohawk confederates. The five tribes were known as the Five Nations or the League of Five Nations. Sometime between 1715 and 1722 the Tuscaroras from North Carolina joined the confederacy and changed the name to the Six Nations. In their relations with white settlers the Seneca played the role of an independent power and were this way from
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best with what they had. The Haudenosaunee are just one of those many nations of people. They are also known as the Iroquois people. There are six nations in the present day that are a part of the Iroquois Confederacy. They are the Mohawk‚ Oneida‚ Onondaga‚ Cayuga‚ Seneca‚ and Tuscarora nations. The Tuscarora nation joined the Iroquois Confederacy in the early 1700’s‚ so they aren’t represented in some things‚ such as the Hiawatha belt‚ which symbolizes the Iroquois Confederacy’s founding
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The first five nations to join the confederacy were Mohawk‚ Oneida‚ Onondaga‚ Cayuga‚ and Seneca. Tuscaroras migrated from Carolina and joined the confederacy in 1722. The Iroquois are bound in a treaty of friendship with the Ojibway to the North. The Micmac government was three-tiered‚ with local‚ district
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were found stacked on top of one another. The Northeast: Native American Life small communities intricate alliances & trade Horticulture‚ fishing‚ & hunting the huron town of hochelaga‚ c.1535 The Mohawk town of Caughnawaga (“Sault St. Louis”) on the St. Lawrence River‚ c. 1750. Huron: Wampum belt commemorating the Four Nations of the Huron 1.45 Attributed fo Frere Luc (Claude Francois): France bringing the Faith to the Indians of New France‚ c.1675. -oil on canvas‚ 86 x 86 in. (218.4 x 218
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