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Over 800 years ago the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy was established during a total solar eclipse. Before the United States created its Constitution, Indigenous nations among the ...
The Iroquois Confederacy was founded during a total solar eclipse. As April 8 draws near Perry Ground's new show plans to bring Native American eclipse stories to life.
In 1754, American colonist George Washington is an ambitious young officer of the Virginia regiment for the British Army. He is sent to the Ohio Country to deliver an ultimatum to the French Army camped near the border of the Iroquois nation.
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The Iroquois Confederacy was particularly concerned over the possibility of the colonists winning the war, for if a revolutionary victory were to occur, the Iroquois very much saw it as the precursor to their lands being taken away by the victorious colonists, who would no longer have the British Crown to restrain them. [22]
Historians and archeologists have researched an incident related in the oral history of the founding of the Confederacy. As recorded by later scholars, one account relates there was a violent conflict among the Seneca, who were the last Iroquois nation to join the confederacy as a founding member. Their violence stopped when the sun darkened ...
Jikonhsaseh Historic Marker near Ganondagan State Historic Site. Jigonhsasee (alternately spelled Jikonhsaseh and Jikonsase, pronounced ([dʒigũhsase]) was an Iroquoian woman considered to be a co-founder, along with the Great Peacemaker and Hiawatha, of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy sometime between AD 1142 [1] and 1450; others place it closer to 1570–1600. [2]
The events in the legend have been dated to the middle 1100s through the occurrence of an eclipse coincident with the founding of the Iroquois Confederacy. [ Note 1 ] [ 6 ] This material and quotations are taken from the Mohawk version of the legend, as related by the prominent chief Seth New house (Dayodekane). [ 7 ]