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    Iroquois Women In History

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    thought people have been grown up with and seen throughout life is men are the ones in charge. If someone does not look too far back into history then they will think that this is how it has always been. Taking a closer look, more specifically at Iroquois women, and one will see that the framework of history has not always been the same. Of course, the fact that women had a lot of the power and were politicians is surprising to hear from history. An interesting part of their set up was talked…

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    Jean Baptiste Charbonneau was born during the expedition. After the expedition Sacagawea and her husband went to live in St. Louis Missouri, where they had a daughter named Lizette. Sacagawea died in 1812 due to an unknown illness. The Iroquois Constitution The Iroquois Constitution was the oral constitution that the Great Law of Peace was spread by. It was made by Dekanawidah and written on wampum belts. It bound six native American nations (Oneida, Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, and…

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    Iroquois Creation Story

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    We read over two very important stories of creation in our reading, First the Christian biblical story similar to Adam and Eve. And last but not least the Iroquois Legend from the Native Americans, which varies from any other story I had heard before, Below are what I recognized as similarities and differences between the two. The First Noticed differences between stories were that the Women in the Native American story worked together with the animals of the earth after falling through a hole…

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    with the Iroquois? The French formed alliances with the northern Algonquians, and the common tribes were Algonquin, Micmac, and Montagnais. The Huron shared a culture with the Iroquoian people, until they allied with the northern Algonquians and the French. When this occurred it finalized the departure between the Hurons and the Iroquoians. The Iroquois allied with the Dutch and traded fur with them. 3. What role did firearms play in the relationships among French, Algonkin, Huron, Iroquois?…

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    The Iroquois culture faced many challenges throughout their tough lives. For example, the Iroquois lived in an area with tough weather and trees. The Iroquois culture was impacted by the environment in which they lived in. Farming and hunting in the Iroquois’ environment was very important for their survival. It was important to farm and hunt because it was their only source of food for survival. The Iroquois were not nomads, so they had to use their resources around them. The Iroquois main…

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    well to contact with the Iroquois because of differences in social structure, religion, and family life. When the Iroquois and the Europeans meet, they will be unable to communicate to each other because of a difference in language. However with a translator this will be solved. The Europeans will judge the Iroquois because they have females as leaders of the clans(who is Iroquois). However, in the European culture they are patriarchal, so they will think that the Iroquois are insane for…

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    The Iroquois Constitution is a political document which Dekanawidah, someone who is presumed to be in high position, establishes the Iroquois Confederacy. Through the translation provided by Arthur C. Parker, it is inferred that the Iroquois had close-knit ties with the nature that surrounded them. A relationship is established between literature and place, nature’s influence on the lives of the Iroquois is clear because the people chose to centralize their government around it. Foremost, the…

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    Women have constantly had a respected place in Iroquois society. In the Iroquois society, women had the power of various things. In various social requests all through history and around the world, women have not been managed correspondingly and given proportionate rights to men. Of course, the Iroquois society has continually regarded women generally as and given them a significant measure of power and fundamental occupations since the Iroquois people have always respected their knowledge and…

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    “Get Down” one of the Inuit say. “We don’t want to scare it off”. The Inuit, Haida, and Iroquois have many things in common and many things that they do differently. In this essay i'm going to talk about how all three tribes are alike, how the Inuit are different, how the Haida are different and how the Iroquois are different. The Inuit, Haida and Iroquois have a lot of things in common. I'm going to talk about some of them. The First thing i'm going to talk about is is, all three tribes live…

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    people for different reasons. It forces emotions that fluctuate depending on where one is born and how one is raised. The theme of god has often relied on cultural boundaries, forcing writers like Cotton Mather, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, the Iroquois, and Thoreau to change their perspective on spirituality. Cotton Mather was a Puritan minister, pastor, and a writer. Mather’s writings helped capture how moving the hopes of the first generation of Puritans were, allowing readers to sense…

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