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== Post-Columbian Eastern Native American tribes overview == | |||
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! '''PERIOD / TIMELINE''' | |||
! '''Major Events, Concepts & Themes''' | |||
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* 1450-1660 Iroquois League<br><br> | |||
* 1680s Wabanaki Confederacy | |||
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=== Iroquois League or Confederacy === | |||
* preceded European presence in North America | |||
* originally located south of the Great Lakes | |||
* empowered by and expanded via European fur trade and weapons | |||
=== post-Columbian exchange changes === | |||
* trade, especially fur trade | |||
* technological and economic exchange changed intra-tribal power dynamics, including: | |||
* iron tools and weapons, guns, horses | |||
** colonial and European trade and currencies/ value systems | |||
* tribal leverage of colonial contacts for competition & expansion | |||
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'''BIG IDEAS''' | |||
[[File:Early Localization Native Americans NY.svg|thumb|Map of the New York tribes before European arrival: Iroquoian tribes Algonquian tribes]] | |||
* Northeastern Native American tribal alliances | |||
** '''Iroquois''' tribes | |||
*** located west and south of the St. Lawrence River | |||
*** generally aligned with the British | |||
** '''Algonquin''' tribes | |||
[[File:Algonquian langs.png|thumb|Pre-contact distribution of Algonquian languages]] | |||
*** generally aligned with the French | |||
*** located east and north of the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes | |||
'''DETAILS''' | |||
* '''Iroquois League''', established c. 1450 (prior to Columbus), lasted to 1660 | |||
** confederacy of Iroquois speaking tribes: Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca | |||
** the most powerful of Indian alliances | |||
** ''Iroquois'' = French name given to the tribes | |||
** to the Iroquois, their name was "Haudenosaunee" for "People of the Longhouse" | |||
** the League was known to the English as '''Five Nations''' | |||
*** later Six Nations after Tuscarora joined in 1722) | |||
** NOTE: “nation” or “clans” = better descriptor than “tribes” but collections of tribes who share certain commonalities, viz location, language, leadership, conquest, adoption | |||
** the League negotiated w/ English, maintained independence | |||
** opposed to the Algonquian, which were aligned w/ French, but some Iroquois settled in French held territory and aligned w/ them | |||
*** was also opposed to the Iroquois-speaking '''Huron''' tribes | |||
** to control the Beaver trade, the Iroquois League sought: | |||
*** to control the St. Lawrence River system & lower Great Lakes | |||
*** to control the Ohio Valley | |||
** Iroquois succeeded in controlling Ohio valley by 1670 | |||
*** and pushed other tribes further west, such as the Lakotas and the Shawnee | |||
** Iroquois expansion also included western Maryland and Virginia | |||
* '''Wabanaki Confederacy''', 1680s | |||
** alliance of four main and ten other Algonquian tribes in '''Acadia''' | |||
*** Acadia =New France province in modern Maine | |||
** organized to oppose New England encroachment on lands above settled boundary on the Kennebec River in modern Maine | |||
** '''Wabanaki'' means " "People of the Dawn" or "Easterner" | |||
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** historians see “City upon a Hill” as a statement of “American exceptionalism” | ** historians see “City upon a Hill” as a statement of “American exceptionalism” | ||
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