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2. Battle of Galudoghson - Wikipedia

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   The Iroquois regarded the battle as an unprovoked act of aggression, while the Virginia colonists claimed that the Iroquois had raided Virginia settlements and killed livestock. [ 3 ] : 44–47 The battle was one factor that led colonial authorities to negotiate with Native American leaders for the 1744 Treaty of Lancaster .

3. Barkskins (TV series) - Wikipedia

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   Barkskins chronicles "the arrival of English and French colonists to the New World through the stories of two immigrants in New France, René Sel and Charles Duquet, who work as wood-cutters ('Barkskins, the term for indentured servants’) and of their descendants."

4. Lachine massacre - Wikipedia

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   After the attack, the French colonists retrieved several firearms that English colonists had given to the Iroquois, all of which the Mohawk had left behind during their retreat from the island. Evidence of the English arming the Mohawk incited a longstanding hostility towards the colonists of New York as well as demands for revenge among the ...

5. Iroquois - Wikipedia

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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. [25]

6. Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768) - Wikipedia

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   The Iroquois hoped that they could take pressure off their home territories in the New York and Pennsylvania areas by releasing Ohio lands. Rather than secure peace, the Fort Stanwix treaty helped set the stage for the next round of hostilities between Native Americans and American colonists along the Ohio River, which would culminate in ...

7. Black Robe (film) - Wikipedia

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   As they recover LaForgue, a party of Mohawk Iroquois attack them, killing most of the Algonquins such as Chomina's wife, and take the rest captive. The prisoners are taken to an Iroquois fortress, where they are forced to run the gauntlet and to watch Chomina's young son be killed. They are told they will be slowly tortured to death the next day.

8. Covenant Chain - Wikipedia

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   The Covenant Chain is embodied in the Two Row Wampum of the Iroquois, known as the people of the longhouse - Haudenosaunee. It was based in agreements negotiated between Dutch settlers in New Netherland (present-day New York) and the Five Nations of the Iroquois (or Haudenosaunee) early in the 17th century.

9. Nacotchtank - Wikipedia

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   All of the colonists were killed except for Captain Fleet, who was captured. [17] Held captive for 5 years, Fleet acquired the language and culture of the Nacotchtank. [18] During his time, Fleet observed the trading village Tohoga in present-day Georgetown and noted it as being the center for the monopolized fur trade with the Iroquois. [8] [18]