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== Post-Columbian Eastern Native American tribes overview ==
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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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== Age of Exploration and Columbian Exchange ==
== Age of Exploration and Columbian Exchange ==
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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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== Post-Columbian Eastern Native American tribes overview ==
{| class="wikitable"
! '''PERIOD / TIMELINE'''
! '''Major Events, Concepts & Themes'''
! cell style="width:60%"|'''Notes & connections: details of issues, concepts, themes & events'''
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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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