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Iroquois Confederacy

Iroquois Confederacy. January 7, 2013. Iroquois Confederacy. Lived in the forested valleys of the St. Lawrence River Formed themselves into six tribes “People of the Longhouses” But were called the “Iroquois Confederacy” by the settlers of New France

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Iroquois Confederacy

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  1. Iroquois Confederacy January 7, 2013

  2. Iroquois Confederacy • Lived in the forested valleys of the St. Lawrence River • Formed themselves into six tribes • “People of the Longhouses” • But were called the “Iroquois Confederacy” by the settlers of New France • Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Tuscarora, Onondaga, Cayuga

  3. Six Nations

  4. What is this?

  5. Allies • Joined up with the British against New France • British were regular trading partners • American settlers began to move in • They made new towns, hunted, and started farms on traditional native hunting grounds • Wild animals were becoming scarce • Iroquois needed to change traditional ways • Farmed corn, beans and squash

  6. American Revolutionary War What choice would the Iroquois Make?

  7. Neutrality? • Tried Neutrality but… • In 1779 an American patriot raiding party destroyed an Iroquois village • Iroquois feared for their lives and sought British Protection

  8. Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) • Mohawk chief • Made full captain of British Army • Lead Mohawks against several successful battles against Americans • When Americans lost, the Iroquois fled north

  9. Joseph Brant • He made a deal with the British • Governor of Canada granted 675,000 acres of land for his people along Grand River • This became known as “Grand River Six Nations Reserve” • Eventually over 5000 natives fled the newly founded United States of America to live in the Canadas

  10. Grand River

  11. Brant was invited to meet…

  12. A Royal Meeting • Brant was rewarded for his loyalty • Given money to help rebuild new community in Upper Canada • He built: a town council hall, a school, a church, a saw mill, a grist mill (for grinding grain into flour) • The Church he built in 1786 was called “Her Majesty’s Chapel of the Mohawks” • Oldest Protestant church in Ontario

  13. Died in 1807 • Memorial in Brantford, Ontario

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