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    Life Of Jacques Cartier

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    first voyage he explored parts of Newfoundland and discovered new species of birds. On May 19 He set his second voyage with three ships and 110 men and two natives. They discovered the St. Lawrence River. During this voyage‚ he met the friendly Iroquois Indians who had scurvies then passed the scurvies to the crew. After‚ the Iroquoians gave them white spruce tree boiled in water that cured them. On October 17‚ 1540 Cartier was assigned chief navigator on the voyage to set up a colony in Canada

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    Flanders describes Mohocks attacking people at a market. In the historical novel Manituana by Wu Ming‚ a 1770s incarnation of the Mohock gang tries to contact Joseph Brant‚ a Mohawk leader in visit to the king‚ and they apply to become the seventh Iroquois nation. The Charlie Trees A Jacobite Novel by B. Dew Roberts Published by Chatto & Windus 1951 (page 10: ’Set upon? By those damned Mohocks‚ I suppose? ’) G. K. Chesterton ’s short story The Hammer of God centres on the Bohuns‚ a fictional aristocratc

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    HIS103 Book Review 101414

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    Elizabeth Oswald October 14‚ 2014 History 103 Prof. Barkan Berleth‚ Richard. Bloody Mohawk The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York’s Frontier. New York: Delmar. 2010. Print. 370. Book Review Richard Berleth‚ a native to New York received his Ph. D. in 1970 from Rutgers University in English literature. He won an award for Bloody Mohawk as an Independent Publisher. Berleths’ other books consist of The Twilight Lords: An Irish Chronicle‚ Samuel’s Choice‚ Mary

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    A Longhouse Villiage

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    villages were built along shores of rivers and streams so people would have a fresh supply of water for drinking and bathing. The Native Americans built villages to survive the elements and wild. The Algonquin Indians built roundhouses and the Iroquois Indians built longhouses. Specifically‚ they used wood and bark of an elm tree. The Algonquin Indians built roundhouses by driving poles into the ground and the poles are 2 feet apart and bent so they came together over the center and the ends

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    and coexist‚ the British treated them as an obstacle in the way of their conquest. The European intruders depended on the help and good nature of the indigenous people‚ who provided them with food and guides. During this same time period both the Iroquois and the Indian allies of New France suffered great losses of population in the face of epidemics and disease. English colonizers took advantage of this and used this opportunity to push their way west. Very land hungry‚ the English showed no respect

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    The Warrior Maiden

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    The Oneida tribe is a Native American people that belong to the Iroquois Confederacy‚ which settled originally in upstate New York. The name that the people give themselves is derived from "Onayotekaono"‚ meaning the "People of the Upright Stone". The story of the "Warrior Maiden" is not necessarily specific to the Oneida tribe‚ but it is actually a rather common legend among the Native American peoples. However‚ the story is to be found in different versions that are‚ for their most part‚ dissimilar

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    Aboriginal Canadians and European settlers In the history of contact between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in Canada‚ there has been an imbalance in acculturative influences. Generally‚ Aboriginal peoples have been changed substantially‚ with serious erosion of their cultures and identities. However‚ this dominance by Euro Canadian peoples has also been met by resistance by Aboriginal peoples. Policy and programme changes to alter the relationship between these two sets

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    tribe. Although not all‚ many tribes did acquire their own religious beliefs‚ social structure‚ and economic organization. Historians know this information with help from mapping out trade routes and things left behind‚ such as the artifacts. The Iroquois groups‚ consisting of five chiefdoms or nations‚ are another instant where they “separated” themselves from others. Another very important model that is proof is vast structures like The Great Serpent Mound that were built and left behind. There

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    Unit 2: The Planting of English America Vocabulary Dia Flint Sept.16‚ 2013 1st period John Rolfe: husband of Pocahontas. He was killed by Powhatans in a surprise raid in 1622. He devoted much of his new world life to perfecting a saleable form of tobacco. Disease: main destroyer of Indian people and cultures. Epidemics of measles and smallpox totally destroyed some Indian groups

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    Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha

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    Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha‚ patroness saint of ecology‚ nature‚ and the environment. Kateri was born in 1656‚ in Ossernonan. At birth Kateri Tekakwitha was given the name Catherine‚ or Kateri in Iroquois languages. Kateri Tekakwitha became an orphan at age 4 when her village got attacked by smallpox and her family died‚ including her parents and her baby brother. After being weakened‚ scarred and partially blind‚ she survived. Her 2 aunts and uncle‚ the Kanienkehaka chief then adopted her.

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