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A map of the Six Nations land cessions. The Six Nations land cessions were a series of land cessions by the Haudenosaunee and Lenape which ceded large amounts of land, including both recently conquered territories acquired from other indigenous peoples in the Beaver Wars, and ancestral lands to the Thirteen Colonies and the United States.
As the Iroquois Six Nations were considered the most warlike of Canada's First Nations, and, in turn, the Mohawk the most warlike of the Six Nations, the Canadian government especially encouraged the Iroquois, particularly the Mohawks, to join. [141] About half of the 4,000 or so First Nations men who served in the CEF were Iroquois. [142]
Dancers at the Six Nations Pow Wow. They later welcomed to the reserve a group of Lenape, who speak Munsee, an Algonquian language. Six Nations of the Grand River is the most populous reserve in Canada. As of March 2023, there were 28,520 band members, of whom 11,688 lived on the reserve. The population consists of the following bands: [22]
Map of Mohawk River. The Mohawk, also known by their own name, Kanien'kehà:ka (lit. ' People of the flint ' [2]), are an Indigenous people of North America and the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy (also known as the Five Nations or later the Six Nations).
Map showing Pennsylvania and the territory involved in the two purchases of 1768 and 1784. The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was a treaty finalized on October 22, 1784, between the United States and Native Americans from the six nations of the Iroquois League. [1]
The Grand River land dispute, also known as the Caledonia land dispute, is an ongoing dispute between the Six Nations of the Grand River and the Government of Canada.It is focused on land along the length of the Grand River in Ontario known as the Haldimand Tract, a 385,000-hectare (950,000-acre) tract that was granted to Indigenous allies of the British Crown in 1784 to make up for ...
Ohsweken (/ oʊ ʃ ˈ w iː k ɛ n /) is a dispersed rural community located within the Six Nations of the Grand River, in the County of Brant, Ontario, Canada. [7] [8] Approximately 300 of the 2,700 homes on the reserve are in Ohsweken, and it is the site of the reserve governmental and administrative offices.
The northern nations became a confederation and declared war on the emperor of the south, beginning a century-long conflict which the north won. A serpent appeared on Lake Ontario, bringing plague . A blazing star fell from the sky, bringing a fiery death to all in its path.