Iroquois
The Iroquois League
Long before the Europeans arrived on this continent there was born to the Huron people a man who had a vision of bringing peace to […]
Iroquois
The Iroquois Peace, 1700 to 1713
Around the year 1451 five Iroquois nations—the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk—met to form the confederacy envisioned by the Huron prophet Deganawida. The five […]
An Iroquois in Oregon
In 1857, Enos Thomas, whose tribal identity is simply listed as Iroquois, was transported from Fort Vancouver to Port Orford, Oregon to be tried for […]
Joseph Brant in Canada
During the Revolutionary War, many Indians allied themselves with their old trading partners, the British. For the six tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy, the divided […]
Red Jacket, Seneca Sachem
In 1830 Red Jacket, the most famous Seneca orator, died in New York at the age of 74. Seneca writer, historian, and archaeologist Arthur Caswell […]
The Ancestors of the Iroquois
When the Dutch and the French, and later the English, began to enter into what would become New York State searching for trading partners in […]
The Iroquois Longhouse
When the Dutch first travelled up New York’s Hudson River to establish trading posts with the Indians they encountered one of the largest and most […]
Iroquois Spirituality
( – promoted by navajo) Long before the Europeans arrived on this continent there was born to the Huron people a man who had a […]
The Iroquois False Face Society
( – promoted by navajo) photo credit: Aaron Huey Among many cultures around the world there are two kinds of illness. First are those which […]
The Tuscarora and the Iroquois League
( – promoted by navajo) Long before the arrival of the English and French colonists in North America, five autonomous tribes had come together to […]