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  2. Jogah - Wikipedia

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    Jogah (Drum Dancers) are the mythical "little people" in Iroquois lore. Usually invisible, there are ways of telling if they are around. For example, drumming with no visible drummers around. They also leave rings of bare earth and "bowls" in stones or mud; offerings like tobacco and fingernails can be offered at these "bowls."

  3. Iroquois - Wikipedia

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    Following the move of the Catholic Iroquois to the St. Lawrence valley, historians commonly describe the Iroquois living outside of Montreal as the Canadian Iroquois, while those remaining in their historical heartland in modern upstate New York are described as the League Iroquois. [91] Map showing dates Iroquois claims relinquished, 1701–1796.

  4. Category:Legendary creatures of the indigenous peoples of ...

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    Iroquois legendary creatures (13 P) L. Lakota legendary creatures (2 P) Little people (mythology) (1 C, 15 P) W. Washoe legendary creatures (2 P) Pages in category ...

  5. Iroquois mythology - Wikipedia

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    In this underworld, there are forests and animals, including a white buffalo. The Oh-do-was guard against poisonous snakes and creatures of death that try to escape from the underworld. Occasionally, the Oh-do-was emerge from the underworld at night and visit the world above where they hold festivals and dance in rings around trees.

  6. Iroquoian peoples - Wikipedia

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    The Middle Ontario Iroquois stage is divided into chronological Uren and Middleport substages, [9] which are sometimes termed as cultures. [10] Wright controversially attributed the increase in homogeneity to a "conquest theory", whereby the Pickering culture became dominant over the Glen Meyer and the former became the predecessor of the later ...

  7. Underwater panther - Wikipedia

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    Underwater Panther, George Gustav Heye Center, National Museum of the American Indian An underwater panther, called Mishipeshu (in Ojibwe syllabics: ᒥᔑᐯᔓ) or Mishibijiw (in syllabics: ᒥᔑᐱᒋᐤ) in Ojibwe (IPA: [mɪʃʃɪbɪʑɪw]), is one of the most important of several mythical water beings among many Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands and Great Lakes region ...

  8. St. Lawrence Iroquoians - Wikipedia

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    During this period, Champlain reported that the Algonquian peoples were fearful of the powerful Iroquois. The anthropologist Bruce G. Trigger believes the political dynamics were such that the Huron were unlikely to enter Iroquois territory to carry out an attack against the St. Lawrence people to the north. In the mid- to late-16th century ...

  9. Mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Iroquois mythology - A confederacy of tribes located in the New York state area. Lenape mythology; Seneca mythology - A North American tribe located south of Lake Ontario. Wyandot religion - A North American tribe located around the northern shore of Lake Ontario.