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They were known by the French during the colonial years as the Iroquois League, and later as the Iroquois Confederacy, while the English simply called them the "Five Nations". The peoples of the Iroquois included (from east to west) the Mohawk , Oneida , Onondaga , Cayuga , and Seneca .
In some cases, Native American slaves were allowed to live on the fringes of Native American society until they were slowly integrated into the tribe. [3] The word "slave" may not accurately apply to such captive people. [2] [3] When the Europeans made contact with the Native Americans, they began to participate in the slave trade. [10]
The land ceded covered, partially or in the entire, the U.S. states of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and North Carolina. They were bordered to the west by the Algonquian lands in the Ohio Country, Cherokee lands to the south, and Muscogee and Choctaw lands to the southeast.
Iroquois mythology tells that the Iroquoian people have their origin in a woman who fell from the sky, [2] and that they have always been on Turtle Island. [3] Iroquoian societies were affected by the wave of infectious diseases resulting from the arrival of Europeans. For example, it is estimated that by the mid-17th century, the Huron ...
Later day Iroquois longhouse (c.1885) 50–60 people Interior of a longhouse with Chief Powhatan (detail of John Smith map, 1612). Longhouses were a style of residential dwelling built by Native American and First Nations peoples in various parts of North America.
Ceded land for the state assembly of Tennessee, whose capital was then in East Tennessee, to meet upon. Treaty of Washington, 7 January 1806 Ceded land. Treaty of Fort Jackson, 9 August 1814 Ended the Creek War, demanded land from both the Muscogee (Creek) and the Cherokee. Treaties of Washington, 22 March 1816
The Holston drainage basin, located within the upper Tennessee drainage basin. These early Iroquois or proto-Iroquoians were from an earlier Neutralia trade network south of the Huronian of the Canadien region south of Lake Erie. [45] The Iroquois League destroyed the Neutral Nation's trade network by 1653. The Rickohockans arrived in Virginia ...
The wampum belt consists of black or purplish and white beads made of shells. Found in the Northeast of America, quahog clam shells are often used for the black and sometimes the white beads of these belts. Most often, the Iroquois used various types of whelk shells for the white beads. Wampum figures in the story of Hiawatha.