At one time, the Iroquois people were fractured into five ... He became the founder of the Five Nations confederacy (later to become the Six Nations). Dekanawidah first crossed Lake Ontario ...
"A sophisticated, sustainable planting system that provided long-term soil fertility and a healthy diet to generations of ...
The Iroquois attacked New France's outposts in the 1650s and 1660s, killing settlers and taking prisoners. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) The Five Nations were 12,000 strong and had ...
comprising the Haudenosaunee or Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Historically, the Seneca occupied territory throughout central and western New York. As the westernmost of the Six Nations, the ...
It is also covered by the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua, between the United States Government and the Six Nations Confederacy ... Called the Iroquois Confederacy by the French, and the League of Five ...
The speech was included in a collection printed by Benjamin Franklin, who later mused in a 1751 letter to a friend that it would be “a very strange Thing” if the six nations of the Iroquois ...