...Abstract The Iroquois Indians are regarded as the original inhabitants of New York State and Ontario. Prior to being colonized by the Europeans, mainly the British and French, there were five sub-tribes in the Iroquois nation. The Iroquois Indian has existed in North America for the last 4000years. The tribe consists of a well structured social, political, cultural and economic set up. Iroquois confederacy served the purpose of uniting the Indian tribes. The confederacy consisted of six Indian nations. This union provided the Indian tribes with an upper hand when negotiating with Europeans. The Iroquois Indians also had a council known as Onondaga that formed the purpose of serving the entire Indian tribes. The tribe was able to protect its farmland as a result of establishing strong military and efficient governance. Their association with the Dutch enabled the tribe to conquer the neighboring tribes. The union, that brought five tribes together and later joined by the Tuscarora in 1712, provided the native tribes of North America authority in terms of fighting for their rights in the mainstream society. The Iroquois Indians The Iroquois are part of the Indian tribes considered in history as the original occupants of Northern America. They are believed to originate from the soil just like trees that grow in the forest. This Indian tribe lived in settlements surrounded by lakes, hills, and forests. The Iroquois Indians believe they originated near Oswego...
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...Individual Project History of the Iroquois Nicole Suchocki American InterContinental University HIST105-1201B-10 U.S. History Due March 11th, 2012 Instructor: Scott Lingenfelter Table of Contents Title Page 1 Table of Contents 2 Abstract 3 History of the Iroquois 4 Introduction 4 Pre-Columbian History 4 Cultural and Religious Beliefs 5 Post-Columbian History 5 History of Hiawatha 6 Conclusion 6 References 7 Outline 8 Abstract In this paper I will discuss the history of the Iroquois in the United States. First by describing the tribes pre-Columbian history to include the settlement dates and known cultural details. Then a brief description of the cultural and religious beliefs of the tribe will be given, as well as the tribes’ history after contact with settlers. Finally discussing Hiawatha, who he was and how he affected the Iroquois tribe. History of the Iroquois Introduction The Iroquois settled in the Northeast originally known as the Eastern Woodlands. The Iroquois are one of the most well-known tribes in the United States both before and after the settlement of the United States by the European settlers. In this paper I will go over the two different histories of the Iroquois from before and after the European countries had settled the United States. Then I will be discussing the history of Hiawatha and his contributions to the Iroquois tribes. So overall I will cover most of the history of the Iroquois and one of their main leaders...
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...IROQUOIS KINSHIP 1 Iroquois Kinship ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology November 4, 2012 IROQUOIS KINSHIP 2 IROQUOIS KINSHIP The origin of the Iroquois tribe dates back centuries, much before the Europeans settlers first arrived on North American soil. I will discuss the kinship system of the Iroquois tribe, describe three specific examples of how the kinship of the Iroquois culture impacts the way this culture behaves and compare this culture to my own society. Other names for the Iroquois are Haudenosaunee, People of the Longhouse, and the Six Nations. The Iroquois Indians lived in what is now New York State along the St. Lawrence River. “The Iroquois Indians were known as the "Five Nations". The league was formed before European contact. The original five nations are Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca. The Tuscarora joined later, after European contact, and became the sixth nation.” (Miller, 2000-2001) The Iroquois originated from Up State New York. Throughout migration they gained control of most of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. In 1680, “their empire extended west from the north shore of Chesapeake Bay through Kentucky to the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers; then north following the Illinois River to the south end of Lake Michigan; east across all of lower Michigan, southern Ontario and adjacent parts of southwestern Quebec; and finally south through northern New England west...
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... ,The Iroquois Indians, The Iroquois Indians were located in upstate New York. The men of the tribe would burn the forest so that the women could plant seeds weed and harvest the crops. There were three sisters in the vegetable family that were used the most by the Iroquois Indians, these were corn, beans, and squash. The Iroquois Indians lived in longhouses several families lived in one house. The women of the tribe were matrilineally related. They chose one older woman to organize the labor of all of the women to ensure that there was teamwork amongst them. This would make them successful as well as being fair. There was a time of European contact when 65% of the products were produced by the Iroquois women. (Johansen, 1999). The women of the tribe were valued in the community because of the labor that was performed by them, also the contributions that were made to the villages. There were many extratribal conflicts that arose and this did involve the women of the tribe. The Iroquois women were considered as cultivators, which in turn the maize was owned by them. The men were hunters, traders, and warriors, which with the contribution of the maize from the women to the warriors allowed the women to be involved in the trading war. The importance of the maize was that if the women did not like or were against a raiding activity, they were able to hold the maize from the warriors which would cause the warriors not to go.(Nowak,1979). The children of the Iroquois Indians...
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...interactions between each other, and the rights among the group. According to Chegg.com, “Kinship and family ties may be defined through genetic relationships, adoption, or other ritualized behavior such as marriage and household economies. Kinship systems range in size from a single, nuclear-family to tribal or intertribal relationships” (2014). There are many different varieties of kinship and how they are addressed within many cultures. There are six different types of kinship in anthropology (Schwimmer, 2001). The two cultures being addressed in this essay are the Crow kinship and the Iroquois kinship. The Crow, also called the Absaroka or Apsaalooke, are a tribe of Native Americans who historically lived in the Yellowstone river valley. Women within these tribes have a highly significant role (Crystallinks.com, 2012). The Crow people are of a matrilineal line. They are a matriarchal tribe and in marriage the husbands moving in with the wife’s family. Following the matrilineal line, Crow kinship further addresses the women within the family. Relatives in the kinship diagram on the mother’s side have descriptive terms whereas the father’s side has more classificatory terms. A relatively distinctive note in the Crow kinship that is different from other kinship disgrams is that they do not distinguish between generations (Schwimmer, 2001). According to Brian Schwimmer in Systematic Kinship Terminologies, the Crow Kinship “Employs a bifurcate merging pattern but applies a...
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...Iroquois Political Theory vs. U.S. Constitution The Iroquois people have inhabited areas of Canada and northern New York for the last 4,000 years, while the US has only been a country and had a government for around 240 years. The Iroquois confederacy was originally made comprising of Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca tribes to prevent and resolve inter tribal conflict and to make the land more peaceful. The US Constitution and the Iroquois political theory are both similar and different in its own way. The Iroquois political system was the building blocks of the US constitution and that's why we have some of the similar ideas in the US constitution. Areas such as the three branches of government, impeachment, and executive branch getting veto power are in both political systems. The US government is divided into three parts; the...
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...Five Nations of the Iroquois: History of how they came together and exist now. Marceline Kilbourn Bryant and Stratton Professor Sheehan July 22, 2014 The Five Nations (Haudenosaunee) originally known as the Iroquois League is presently based in upstate New York. Originally, the League consists of the nations of Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca. In 1722, the transition to what is called the Six Nations came to being when Tuscarora joined. According to history, the Five Nations started as distinct tribes by the middle of the 15th century. Each nation occupies a distinct territory and performs a different task. Iroquois influence and earlier domination ranges from Canada, to the Great Lakes and from Allegheny Mountains to Virginia and Kentucky. To live harmoniously with each other, the people from each nation came together and formed the Iroquois League which means Nations of Peace and Power as per their language. Would this change prove to be affluent or detrimental to the future of the Iroquois people? The League also known as the confederacy was known to have been established before contact with Europeans (Tooker, 1978) and its influence through alliances with other Indians, stretched east to west from New England to the great lakes, with Canada and south of Georgia. Strategically...
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...British Iroquois Alliance The Iroquois were a group of First Nation people living in eastern North America even before the first explorers discovered the new world. The Iroquois were the major tribe who traded and expanded their hand in the fur trade, during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. From the 1667 to the 1680’s the Iroquois maintained a good relation with the French. They allowed the Jesuits in, but due the Iroquois expansive and aggressive mentality conflict rose between the French and them. Simultaneously it brought them closer in alliance with the English. This alliance between the British and Iroquois was the first of many steps, which allowed the British to gain a strong foothold in Canada. Chapter 1: The British The British were a growing force during this period. They were taking...
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...rhythms and instruments from the musical traditions of Native Americans. In this essay I will explain the differences and similarities between Iroquois, a Native American tribe and African American music. Music is used for various reasons between Iroquois and African Americans. It is used for recreation, rituals and ceremonies, story telling, and language. For example, African Americans sung spiritual songs to help one another during slavery, so the master wouldn't know what they were talking about. Music was also used in Iroquois and Africans Americans society by communicating with others parts of the world. Music was used as an early sign of general cultural diffusion. (Plantinga, p.6) Music is used to help expand our world and cultures. Music is a part of most activities that African Americans and Iroquois tribes enjoy. Music is taught and learned orally by both cultures. This means that they are sung and played together easily; working together as a team. Alternation between a leader and the group is a common way of call and response. For instance, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is a call response song, that's sung by African Americans. Music can be taught within every culture the same, but different at the same time. Iroquois and African Americans have different types of music they listen to. Iroquois...
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...Iroquois Tina Mack Ashford University ANT234 Nadia Khrais May 12, 2014 Iroquois When we think of Indians we think of tepees, bow and arrows, and free roaming hunters. Iroquois were different they lived in longhouses and farmed. They were different in other ways as will. This paper will try to describe the way the Iroquois lived and suffered. The Iroquois lived in longhouses that were made of young saplings lashed together with strips of bark. The frame work was then covered with large sheets of bark, probable from the young sapling used for the frame work. The longhouse was usually twenty feet wide, twenty feet high, and ranged from sixty to two hundred twenty feet long. “The length of a longhouse was determined by the size of the extended family for which it would serve as a home. The interior of the longhouse was divided into a series of compartments or apartments about 20 feet long. Each compartment was the home of two families. Each family shared a fire for heating, cooking, and light, with the family that lived across the central aisle or corridor. This aisle ran the length of the longhouse from end to end, door to door. A longhouse, 220 feet long, could be the home of 18 families, or about 90 people; a longhouse of 60 feet might serve as the home of four families or 20 people. The longest longhouse known from archeological excavations was 400 feet long and was probably the home of about 36 families, or 180 people.” (Alliance,website viewed...
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...A kinship system is the system of social relationships that constitute kinship in a particular culture. I have chosen to write on the kinship system of the Iroquois. The kinship system of the Iroquois is also known as bifurcate merging. The Iroquois trace their kinship relationship through one sex which is called unilineal descent groups. The Iroquois go through the female line. In this culture the marital partners is determined by kinship, since people must marry outside their lineage and clan. This specific kinship recognizes two groupings: Parents and siblings who are too closely related to marry, and potential spouses and in laws. While they cannot marry their parallel cousin (someone born of a sister, brother, mother, or father) they are allowed to marry their cross cousins (someone born outside of the immediate family). This process is sometimes called a sibling-exchange system. It keeps the wealth in the family and also reasserts alliances between lineages. This culture as I said before is matrilineal which means that the blood line is traced through the mother, which means that the child is the same clan or tribe as the mother no matter who the father is. They also have clans or family groupings; it affects behavior because you are not allowed to marry someone in your own clan. When marrying someone they are considered to be outsiders since when they marry they move to the clan they are married into and become a part of it. Another way this culture is affected is we...
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...After reading the Iroquois and Pima creation myths in the book, I have been very intrigued by the Native American beliefs of the creation of the earth. It seems that nearly every tribe has a different belief of how it happened, though some are very similar. The Huron tribe, originally from the St. Lawrence Valley, have a very similar belief of creation as the Iroquois, where the Cherokee tribe had a totally different view than the Pima. The Iroquois and the Huron myths are both in the Earth-Diver category. In this type of myth, animals swim deep to the bottom of the water and bring up dirt in their mouth, forming the earth. Just like the Iroquois, in the Huron myth, a divine woman falls out the sky and is swept up just before hitting water by a hawk. The hawk then calls down in the water for help, for she is too heavy for it to hold by itself. First, a turtle comes out the sea for her to sit on, and then he instructs other animals such as ducks, beavers, and even a muskrat. After the earth is built, the woman gives birth to twins, but soon dies after giving birth to her two sons. The sons in both myths represent good and evil on earth. They were to prepare the earth so that humans could live on it, but they found out that they could not live together. So, they separated, with each one taking their own portion of the earth to prepare. Once older, the good son creates a sun and moon out of the remains of its mother’s body. It continues to create the world, forming vegetation...
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...The Iroquois peoples Did you know the Iroquois people aren’t really one tribe? Yep they were the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca.They roamed the lands that is now the state of new york.In this book you will learn about… what they lived in, there food, the tools and weapons used by these tribes,there clothes, the roles of men, women, and children. And after Europe explored their territory. Food & Shelter So, we have the Iroquois peoples but they need to live somewhere, right? Well most Iroquois lived in longhouses. Longhouses could house about 30 families and were 60 feet long and 15 feet wide. They would make multiple fires keeping the whole house warm. But the Iroquois didn’t only use longhouses they also lived in wigwams....
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...I will be explaining the difference between the Inuit, Iroquois, and Haida. Similarity: The Inuit and the Haida hunted (sea animals), but the Iroquois didn’t hunt. The Iroquois and the Haida both lived in a green grasslands , but the Inuit lived in a icy terrain with mounds of ice and snow. All of the tribes made clothing. The Haida and the Inuit made shirts and coats while the Iroquois made shoes out of leather. All the tribes used art to show tradition throughout their land. Inuit made tiny sculptures and masks. Haida made baskets and totem poles. And the Iroquois made clay pipes and masks. Inuit: Inuit people were very good at hunting. They used bows and arrows and knives made out of bones which they used to kill the tough ones like seals....
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...Native Americans left a permanent imprint on the English language. The early English speaking settlers borrowed from several different Native American languages words for the new places and new objects that they had found in this new land. All across the country. one can find cities. towns. rivers. and states ,with Native American names. For example. the states of Delaware. Iowa. Illinois. And Alabama are named after Native American tribes as are the cities of Chicago. Miami. and Spokane. In addition to place names. English adopted from various Native American languages the words for animals and plants that were to be found only in the Americas and no place else. Chipmunk. moose. raccoon. skunk. tobacco. and potato are just a few examples. Although the vocabulary of English is the area that shows the most Native American influence. it is not the only area of American culture that was shaped by contact with Native Americans. Art is another area of important Native American contributions. Wool rugs woven by women of the Navajo tribe in Arizona and New Mexico are highly valued works of art in the United States. Also, Native American jewelry made from silver and turquoise is...
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