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- 11: Native American Genocide
- ... other than despotic chiefs. This lack of information about Indian governments represents another tragic fabrication since many Indian governmental forms were highly evolved and democratic. Some of them, especially the Iroquois, apparently had considerable effect on concepts later incorporated into the U.S. Articles of Confederation and the Constitution (of 1787). The systems of checks and balances, popular participation in decision making, direct representation, states' rights, and bicameral legislatures were all part of the Iroquois Confederacy, dating back to the 1400s. The Native Americans were ousted through a series of clever tricks and roux that seeming had an unseen outcome that wasn’t beneficial to ... the Indians on the continent, and massively stole from the rest. Every acre of what is now the United States was once part of some Indian nation. Some of the Iroquois tribes have been living in the northern United States for at least 5,000 years. In the Southwest, the Hopi Indians are estimated to have been living in what ...
- 12: Native American Women
- ... stranger and yielded authority to his wife's eldest brother. As a result, the husband was unlikely to become an authoritative, domineering figure. Moreover, among such peoples as the Cherokee, Iroquois, and Pueblo, a disgruntled wife, secure in her possessions, could simply divorce her husband by tossing his belongings out of their residence. Women's role in tribal governance was often influential in matrilineal societies, as among the Iroquois, in which the principal civil and religious offices were kept within maternal lineages. The tribal matriarch or a group of tribal matrons nominated each delegate, briefed him before each session ... pottery making, were shared fairly evenly. In the Southwest, the men did most of the field work, house building, weaving, cloth manufacturing, and animal skin processing. Female prestige among the Iroquois grew greater after the Revolutionary War, and male prestige ebbed due to continual losses and defeats and the inability to do much hunting due to scarcity of game. By ...
- 13: History of Lacrosse
- ... used in lacrosse depended upon which style of play you came from. Once again the Great Lake style had two small sticks, one in each hand, while the southeast and Iroquois had only one larger stick. While this differed greatly, the importance of the stick did not. Sticks were very important to the American Indians. Sticks were a symbol of triumph ... so banned from International competition, reserved for "amateurs"(Vennum 3). This came during a time of American Indian resentment, and for some hatred. This barrier held until 1980 when the Iroquois Nationals formed and broke this barrier. Many aspects started that brought negative thought. Wagering on games which had always been an integral part to the community's involvement. When betting ... Oklahoma Choctaw attached lead weights to their sticks to use as skull-crackers. The game was then banned. In 1950 the Great Lakes style of lacrosse died out, but the Iroquois and southeast still played their own styles and games. Lacrosse got its name from a Jesuit missionary-Jean de Bre`beuf. Who called it crosse. This was derived from ...
- 14: History Of Lacrosse
- ... used in lacrosse depended upon which style of play you came from. Once again the Great Lake style had two small sticks, one in each hand, while the southeast and Iroquois had only one larger stick. While this differed greatly, the importance of the stick did not. Sticks were very important to the American Indians. Sticks were a symbol of triumph ... so banned from International competition, reserved for "amateurs"(Vennum 3). This came during a time of American Indian resentment, and for some hatred. This barrier held until 1980 when the Iroquois Nationals formed and broke this barrier. Many aspects started that brought negative thought. Wagering on games which had always been an integral part to the community's involvement. When betting ... Oklahoma Choctaw attached lead weights to their sticks to use as skull-crackers. The game was then banned. In 1950 the Great Lakes style of lacrosse died out, but the Iroquois and southeast still played their own styles and games. Lacrosse got its name from a Jesuit missionary-Jean de Bre`beuf. Who called it crosse. This was derived from ...
- 15: Native American Women
- ... stranger and yielded authority to his wife's eldest brother. As a result, the husband was unlikely to become an authoritative, domineering figure. Moreover, among such peoples as the Cherokee, Iroquois, and Pueblo, a disgruntled wife, secure in her possessions, could simply divorce her husband by tossing his belongings out of their residence. Women's role in tribal governance was often influential in matrilineal societies, as among the Iroquois, in which the principal civil and religious offices were kept within maternal lineages. The tribal matriarch or a group of tribal matrons nominated each delegate, briefed him before each session ... pottery making, were shared fairly evenly. In the Southwest, the men did most of the field work, house building, weaving, cloth manufacturing, and animal skin processing. Female prestige among the Iroquois grew greater after the Revolution-ary War, and male prestige ebbed due to continual losses and defeats and the inability to do much hunting due to scarcity of game. ...
- 16: Won't Libertarian Socialism Destroy Individuality?
- ... emphasis on an egoistic, but impoverished, self" [Remaking Society, p. 48] This individualization associated with "primitive" cultures was also noted by Howard Zinn when he wrote that "Gary Nash describes Iroquois culture. No laws and ordinances, sheriffs and constables, judges and juries, or courts or jails - the apparatus of authority in European societies - were to be found in the northeast woodlands prior to European arrival. Yet boundaries of acceptable behaviour were firmly set. Though priding themselves on the autonomous individual, the Iroquois maintained a strict sense of right and wrong..." [Columbus, the Indians and Human Progress, 1492-1992] In addition, Native American tribes also indicate that communal living and high standards of ...
- 17: The Hopewell
- ... about dress, due to the fact that textiles deteriorate rapidly in the archaeological record. Very little is known of social and political customs; ideas being drawn from ethnographic analogy (of Iroquois, the possible descendants) as well as being pieced together from archaeological contexts. More than likely the people operated under matrilineal kinship. They lived in long-houses dominated by the oldest ... than trading exotic goods. Another theory suggests that they eventually dispersed for unknown reasons, moving perhaps south, integrating with the Mississippian culture or to the northeast, lending to the ancestral Iroquois theory. Whatever the case may be, the Hopewell have left their indelible mark on Ancient Native North American Culture in a way Archaeologists and Historians have never encountered. Bibliography Fagan ...
- 18: Native American Masks
- ... to be inua faces . Inua were the spirits of living, and non-living things . When the women wore these finger masks during the dancing rituals, they accentuated their arm movements . Iroquois The Iroquois Indians had a secret societies, that often led healing, and curing ceremonies. One of these secret societies was called the False Face Society . The False Face society wore wooden masks ...
- 19: Native Americans
- ... painted horsehide heads. Northwestern tribes used wooden boxes, and their rattles were made like masks from wood or native copper. The Pueblos and other farming tribes made gourd rattles. The Iroquois used a turtle shell and a pot or water drum. Woodland Indians of the Eastern Wilderness The Indians of the eastern forests were the first ones the American colonists met ... of reward or punishment after death that are common in other religions. Indians believed in a supernatural force which pervaded all nature. To the Algonquin, this force was manitou. The Iroquois called it orenda, and the Dakota, wakanda. Indians also thought that animals, plants, rocks, the sun, the winds, and other natural objects had spirits (or souls) just like men. The ...
- 20: Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan of Union
- ... in King George's War. At nineteen, Billy had traveled with Conrad Weiser and a group out to Logstown on the Ohio River for the purpose of negotiating with the Iroquois, Delawares, and Shawnees. He was not very different from his father. Part of the reason that Franklin went was because of his May 9 plea for a continental union of ...
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