Iroquois Conflict In Current-Century

1) What was the Iroquois Confederacy? Who came up with the idea and why was it made? The Iroquois Confederacy was formed in the 1570. The confederacy was a cultural and political union of five native American tribes or "The League of Five Nations" that resided along the Hudson River shores hunting and fishing for thousands of years. The Iroquois Confederacy was made up of the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk peoples.

Tribal Sovereignty The article by Thomas Kaplan for the New York Times, titled “Iroquois Defeated by Passport Dispute”, is about the Iroquois national lacrosse team being denied entry into Britain for an international competition using their tribal passports. The reason for this, given in the article, is that Iroquois passports are not made with current technology that protect against fraud. Kaplan describes how the team officials are stuck in a last minute back-and-forth with the British government to acquire visas for the players. The author relates the incident to the ongoing issues in the United States regarding recognition of sovereignty of Native American nations.

The United States and the Iroquois have several comparisons in their constitutions. These constitutions were made to keep the people of their nation protected. “The name of these roots is the Great White Roots and their nature is peace and strength.” (24).

Between the years 1600 to 1700, English colonists were just settling the New World and establishing their own colonies, yet this colonization didn’t come without obstacles. Upon entering the seemingly unscathed land, colonists were greeted by Native Americans. At first, the two groups expressed a relationship characterized by amity and cooperation, yet as time went on, the “white superiority” of the colonists and the belief that they were primary owners of land soured the relationship. It was just a matter of time before the colonists would take over and run out the Native Americans. Primarily peaceful and affable, the relationship between the Indians and English steadily depreciated as the English overran the lands of the Indians while the

In 1742 the chief of Onondaga of the Iroquois Confederacy knew that his land that the people shared would become more valuable than it has ever been. (Doc B)The reason for this was because the “white people” also known as the Americans wanted the land of the chief. The feelings of the Chief result in complaining to the representatives of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia,

This article’s title is “Inseparable Companions” and Irreconcilable Enemies: The Hurons and Odawas of French Detroit, 1701-38 and its author is Andrew Sturtevant. The thesis in this article is the sentence, “The Hurons ' and Odawas ' simmering hostility and eventual conflict demonstrate that native groups survived the Iroquois onslaught and that their interaction profoundly shaped the region”. In this article, Sturtevant is arguing that the Huron and Odawa are distinct nations with different culture and that because of the differences they had many disagreements, not simply because of the colonialism by the French. Sturtevant uses direct quotes from primary sources to show that the distinct nations fought because of their own differences,

Throughout the seventeenth century, conflict between Europeans and Native Americans was rampant and constant. As more and more Europeans migrated to America, violence became increasingly consistent. This seemingly institutionalized pattern of conflict begs a question: Was conflict between Europeans and Native Americans inevitable? Kevin Kenny and Cynthia J. Van Zandt take opposing sides on the issue. Kevin Kenny asserts that William Penn’s vision for cordial relations with local Native Americans was destined for failure due to European colonists’ demands for privately owned land.

There are twenty archaeological records of Seventeenth Century Native American complex burial village historical reference Sites, and half are in Mackinac County alone, that include information regarding the Huron, Ojibwa, and Ottawa Tribes as well as the European Influence (1, 280). The Tribes will be discussed further in detail, including the relation to the French, because it changed the Native’s culture, particularly economically moreover time, whereas the British basically entirely took over and obliterated the Natives through diplomatic collusion involving extermination if insubordinate, annihilated the Natives’ economy structure, and also resulted in a deadly widespread of foreign illnesses the Natives were not immune to (1, 280 and 291). The Europeans imposed upon Native religious privileges due to the quarrel of conception, and even worse lacking responsibility and concern at fault, they neglected to acknowledge and comprehend the diversity, intricacy, and productivity of native beliefs (1, 280 and

Before Europeans even knew of the Americas there were Indians. The Indians had diverse cultures and conflicts with each other. There were hundreds of different groups of Indians. Most hated each other and killed each other. Some sought to get beyond murder and cannibalism.

Explanations of the American Revolution are extracted from the real life accounts of individuals who were directly involved in the activities that took place during this period. One of the Key authors focused in the essay is Mary Jemison, a white woman married into the American Indian tribe of Seneca. She lived the better part of her life alongside the Seneca community and endured a multitude of experiences that enabled her to write about her compelling account of the American Revolution from the year 1775-1779. Indian tribes lived in harmony along the whites, who were the Colonialists and the Americans. During the time of writing of the accounts, most of the States were under colonial rule, but the grip that the colonialists had on the people was sleeping away as rebel groups formed to fight off the oppressive reign of the colonialists.

Without the Iroquois Constitution, the United States Constitution may have not been written the same, if at all. These comparisons and contrasts with the Iroquois constitution are what helped mold our country

Imperialism/Colonization and the Haudenosaunee The year of 1142 marked the formation of the Haudenosaunee; A year when the group of alliances was exempt of all the tangible social, political and economic legacies that historical globalization would later impose. Centuries before Europeans arrived, the area now called upper New York State was occupied by six First Nation tribes, the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and the Tuscora. Prior to the proposal of creating a confederacy, these nations had their own separate territories, and were often at war with each other. With the collective creation of the Great Law of Peace, they were governed under a constitution that symbolized political alliance, unity, and shaped the basis of their

Iroquois Confederacy was an association of five tribes named Mohawk, Oneida, Onandaga, Cayuga, Seneca. The conference was characterized by a peaceful pact between the tribes. In 1700, the Tuscarora tribe joined to the confederacy making the Six Nations Iroquois. Each tribe was compound by two moieties, and each moiety was compound by one or more exogamous clans. The Iroquois Confederacy had a huge importance in America History because they were the immense native American political group that fought with French and England settlement of the America.

The Iroquois creation story is a renowned Native American myth written by a Tuscarora historian, David Cusick. He is also the author of David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations, which is known to be the first Indian-written history printed in the English language (Radus). The Iroquois creation myth exists in twenty-five other versions. It describes how the world was created from the Native American perspective. It begins with a sky woman who falls down into the dark world.

The slave trade also changed with English settlement and colonization (Calloway, 142), and the Iroquois participation in dehumanization changed the relationship they had with other Natives, and in turn their bond with their