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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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   When some of the colonists barricaded themselves within the village's structures, the attackers set fire to the buildings and waited for the settlers to flee the flames. [13] According to a 1992 article, the Iroquois, wielding weapons such as the tomahawk, killed 24 French and took more than 70 prisoners. [15]

5. 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.

6. Beaver Wars - Wikipedia

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   The Beaver Wars (Mohawk: Tsianì kayonkwere), also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars (French: Guerres franco-iroquoises), were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America throughout the Saint Lawrence River valley in Canada and the Great Lakes region which pitted the Iroquois against the Hurons, northern Algonquians and their ...

7. 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.

8. 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 ...

9. Penn's Creek massacre - Wikipedia

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   One year after the Albany Purchase, the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France began, with each side seeking control of the North American colonies. Although the Iroquois refused to take sides for the first four years of the conflict and instructed all of the tribes under their protection to do the same, [13] the Lenape and the ...