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  2. Erie people - Wikipedia

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    The Erie people were also known as the Eriechronon, Yenresh, Erielhonan, Eriez, Nation du Chat, and Riquéronon. [citation needed] They were also called the Chat ("Cat" in French) or "Long Tail", referring, possibly, to the raccoon tails worn on clothing; however, in Native American cultures across the Eastern Woodlands, the terms "cat" and "long tail" tend to be references to a mythological ...

  3. Cherokee history - Wikipedia

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    Cherokee history is the written and oral lore, traditions, and historical record maintained by the living Cherokee people and their ancestors. In the 21st century, leaders of the Cherokee people define themselves as those persons enrolled in one of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes: The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians , The ...

  4. Category:Extinct Native American tribes - Wikipedia

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  5. Wenrohronon - Wikipedia

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    Many were possibly absorbed into the Seneca Nation, whose descendants inhabit some of their former territory today, but the Erie were given an ultimatum to return Huron and Neutrals sheltered by the tribe, which led to the three years of warfare reducing the Erie Confederation and the Iroquois invasion pushing the Shawnee out of eastern and ...

  6. Westo - Wikipedia

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    Anthropologist Marvin T. Smith (1987:131–32) was the first to suggest that the Westo were a group of Erie, who had lived south of Lake Erie until forced to migrate further south to Virginia during the 17th-century Beaver Wars. The powerful nations of the Iroquois League extended their control into a wider area to gain hunting grounds.

  7. Neutral Confederacy - Wikipedia

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    Within a generation (by the early 1670s), all of the nearby first nations, the Erie, the Huron, Neutrals, Tobacco tribes, and even the fierce Susquehannocks would all fall between rampaging epidemic diseases [2] or in the bloody Beaver Wars between themselves [2] and/or to the last tribe standing with any significant military power, [2] the ...

  8. Who do you think you are? Family History Fair is coming to ...

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    Castro is a member of the Erie Society for Genealogical Research, which will help others trace past generations during a free Family History Fair at Erie's Hagen History Center on June 9.

  9. Iroquoian peoples - Wikipedia

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    Historical Iroquoian people were the Five nations of the Iroquois or Haudenosaunee, Huron or Wendat, Petun, Neutral or Attawandaron, Erie people, Wenro, Susquehannock and the St. Lawrence Iroquoians. The Cherokee are also an Iroquoian-speaking people.