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Powhatan Confederacy: late 16th cent. – 1677 AD: Indian Confederation of Algonquian-speaking people in modern day Virginia. Wabanaki Confederacy: 1606–1862 AD, 1993 AD-present: A group of Native American nations in Canada and the United States. Neutral Confederacy: 1615 - 1653: Iron Confederacy: pre 1692 - 1885 AD Sip Song Chau Tai: pre ...
Canadian Confederation (French: Confédération canadienne) was the process by which three British North American provinces—the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick—were united into one federation, called the Dominion of Canada, on July 1, 1867.
One of the Mohawk from Kahnawake saw that Mohawk were marching with the British. He told them to identify themselves; they replied, they were "Mohawks and Five Nations" (the traditional name for the Iroquois Confederacy). Questioned in turn, the Mohawk with the French said, "[W]e are the 7 confederate Indian Nations of Canada."
Today's Iroquois/Six Nations people do not make any such distinction, use the terms interchangeably, but prefer the name Haudenosaunee Confederacy. After the migration of a majority to Canada, the Iroquois remaining in New York were required to live mostly on reservations.
The Wendat emerged as a confederacy of five nations in the St. Lawrence River Valley, especially in Southern Ontario, [1] including the north shore of Lake Ontario. Their original homeland extended to Georgian Bay of Lake Huron and Lake Simcoe in Ontario, Canada and occupied territory around the western part of the lake.
Canadian Confederation, the 1867 union of three British provinces (United Canada, split into Ontario and Quebec; Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick) as "one dominion under the name of Canada." Today, there are 10 provinces and three territories, and Canada (since 1982) is no longer a dominion.
The Council of Three Fires (in Anishinaabe: Niswi-mishkodewinan, also known as the People of the Three Fires; the Three Fires Confederacy; or the United Nations of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi Indians) is a long-standing Anishinaabe alliance of the Ojibwe (or Chippewa), Odawa (or Ottawa), and Potawatomi North American Native tribes.
Two tribal communities formed in Canada, one once known as Saint-Francois-du-lac near Pierreville (now called Odanak, Abenaki for "coming home"), and the other near Bécancour (now known as Wôlinak) on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, directly across the river from Trois-Rivières. These two Abenaki reserves continue to grow and develop.