How To Use Iroquois In A Sentence
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Here, within the same geographical limits of the north temperate zone, and with the far simpler scheme of surface relief which characterizes the New World, we have civilizations as different as those of the Eskimo, the Algonkin peoples of the coniferous forests, the Huron and Iroquois of the deciduous hardwoods, horticultural Muscogeans in the south-east, buffalo-hunting Sioux on the prairie, predatory Apaches and
The Unity of Civilization
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And the man, if such there be, who was born on this soil and sprung from such an ancestry as the early colonial settlers and United Empire Loyalists, or from the loins of settlers of a later generation, who is not proud of his country and of being called a British American, is unworthy of his race and the land of his birth, and unworthy of having his name classed with that of the noble Iroquois (Paul Guidon.)
Young Lion of the Woods A Story of Early Colonial Days
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Eskimo, the Kutchin, the Iroquois, and North American Indians in general; while on the next pages he cites approvingly authors who fancied they had discovered sexual affection among tribes some of whom
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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In the mythologic tales of the Iroquois, the child appears frequently as
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
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The Delaware, Iroquois, Micmac, and Nootka Indians used bittersweet as a poultice to treat arthritis, skin ailments, digestive complaints, and tumors.
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How, now, my vigilant sentinel, can see anything of those you call the Iroquois, on the main land "!
The Last of the Mohicans
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Ages, or among the Iroquois and Algonquins, make men dispense with corslets, even when the shield was worn, as in Homer, slung round the neck by a _telamon_ (_guige_ in Old French), belt, or baldric.
Homer and His Age
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Whether it would have worked against the Iroquois is another question.
Champlain's Dream
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Like the sachem of the Iroquois and the Lakota of the Plains, Hawaiian chiefs, too, had to adapt to survive and compete against the European intruders, and did so with some success.
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One historian of the Iroquois observes that by the start of the seventeenth century they were “at odds with all their neighbors—Algonquin and Huron to the north, Mahican on the east, and Susquehannock to the south.”
Champlain's Dream
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On the other hand, the archers of the Algonquins in their wars with the Iroquois, about 1610, used clubs and tomahawks but no spears, no missiles but arrows, and their leather shield was precisely the [Greek: amphibrotae aspis] of Homer, "covering the whole of a man.
Homer and His Age
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The languages of the Huron-Iroquois family belong to what has been termed the polysynthetic class, and are distinguished, even in that class, by a more than ordinary endowment of that variety of forms and fullness of expression for which languages of that type are noted.
The Iroquois Book of Rites
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In Biegert's view, "the Great Law of Haudenosaunee", also known as the Iroquois, "can help us from our predicament".
Conchita Sarnoff: The Nuclear Free Future Award
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Greene, a full-blooded Oneida, was born on the Iroquois Six Nations Reserve in southwestern Ontario.
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In short, Champlain fought at Lake Champlain, and probably at the Rivière des Iroquois and the Onondaga Village, with an arquebuse à rouet that was fired by a wheel lock.
Champlain's Dream
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The office of the Queen Ge-keah-sau-sa, of fort Gau-strau-yea, for several hundred years (it is said by the Senecas about six hundred years ago she evacuated the fort), the Iroquois did not reordain, for the reason, as it is alleged by them, that the female is the weaker sex of humanity.
Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians
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In the picture which I have given, I have confined myself principally to the Iroquois, or Six Nations, a people who no more deserve the term savage, than the whites do that of heathen, because they have still lingering among them heathen superstitions, and many opinions and practices which deserves no better name.
Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians
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Through dreaming and sharing dreams, the Iroquois believed - and believe to this day - that they contacted the sacred power, orenda.
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This ‘light-life’ corresponds to the chi of eastern systems, the inana of the natives of the Polynesian islands and the orenda of the Iroquois Indians.
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_Oui-a-ra - lih-to_, with about thirty-five warriors of the Indian village of Lorette in conjunction with the Iroquois and Algonquins, was actually engaged in the army of Burgoyne, a name unworthy to be associated with the noble spirit of Indian heroism.
Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present
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Few nations have ever existed, who have evinced more indomitable courage or hardihood, or shown more devotion to the spirit of independence than the Iroquois.
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At any rate, this argument is only partially true since the republic set up by the Iroquois confederacy predates Canadian confederation.
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I admired his war-girdle and moccasins, speaking somewhat carelessly of the beautiful shell-work designs as "wampum" -- an Iroquois term.
The Hidden Children
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The Lake was sometimes called St. Louis, afterwards Frontenac, as well as the fort of Cataraqui, of which the Count de Frontenac was the founder, but insensibly the Lake has regained its ancient name Ontario, which is Huron or Iroquois, and the fort that of the place where it is built.
Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago
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They offer the most complex discussions of cannibalism among the Iroquois.
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That Algonquin word "sachem," so seldom used, so difficult of pronunciation by the Iroquois, was never employed to designate a councilor in council; there they used the title, Roy-a-neh, and to that title had I answered the belt of the Iroquois, in the name of Kayanehenh-Kowa, the Great Peace.
The Reckoning
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Next he contends that Iroquois orality and phonetic writing stand in equal relation; he supports this claim through his metacommentary on translation and literacy and through his allusions to the Bible.
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The clothing of the Iroquois was typically made from deerskin.
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Among the Iroquois the ceremony of adoption into the gens was performed at a public council of the tribe, and therefore was actually a religious rite .
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The French fought with firearms, while traditional Iroquois weapons were bows and arrows, stone tomahawks, and wooden warclubs.
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Did veteran Canadian frontiersmen know the words and gestures that led to successful surrender to Iroquois warriors?
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Purchasing activities fell into private hands and land sales continued to erode Iroquois territories.
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The Green Man recommends incorporating 'Iroquois Beauty' black chokeberry Aronia melanocarpa ‘Morton’ into clients' landscaping designs.
ARONIA 'IROQUOIS BEAUTY'
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An Iroquois helicopter "gunship" was observed dropping an
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The first speaker, Amy Lee, is an Iroquois writer and herbalist.
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The elder clan mothers in matrilineal Iroquois society had the power to choose the sachems, or peace chiefs, for each of their clans.
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The name is not Iroquois -- yet it may be, too -- a soft, gracious trisyllable stolen from the Lenape.
The Reckoning
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They could not depend on the English after the latter interpreted the Treaty of Lancaster in 1744 as an Iroquois cession of the Ohio Country.
George Washington’s First War
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However, Cusick's irregularities both shift English language toward Iroquois grammar and protect Iroquois knowledge from facile interpretation.
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Come forth miserableand wash the Iroquois paint from your face and stand before the Hurons.
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This artifice, a manifestation of the diabolic nature of its author, had too much of the success intended by it, for, although the Governor managed to disculpate himself in the eyes of the more candid-minded Iroquois leaders, yet there were great numbers of the people who could not be disabused, as is usual in such cases, even among civilized races.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
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During the seventeenth century, French Jesuit missionaries converted many of the Iroquois to Catholicism.
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Although dressed in the buckskin of the frontiersman, he travelled in style, accompanied by a gamekeeper from his Angus estate and an Iroquois cook.
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The Sokoki and Pocumtuc (Connecticut River in western Massachusetts) had a long history of hostility with the Iroquois, and helped the Mahican in their war against the Mohawk (1624-28), with the Pennacook being drawn in as allies of the Sokoki.
History of American Women
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Among the Five Nations or League of the Iroquois, the sachem was a formally recognized social role, which was an elected position and, more significantly, limited to men.
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As the years passed, Quakers, Baptists, Methodists, and an interdenominational Protestant group called the New York Missionary Society joined the effort of proselytizing the Iroquois.
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Central America "[and in fact America as a whole]" and the Old World, "makes the following statement (in the course of a discussion of the myths relating to horned snakes in California):" a similar monster, possessing antlers, and sometimes wings, is also very common in Algonkin and Iroquois legends, although rare in art.
The Evolution of the Dragon
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The Lake was sometimes called St. Louis, afterwards Frontenac, as well as the fort of Cataraqui, of which the Count de Frontenac was the founder, but insensibly the Lake has regained its ancient name Ontario, which is Huron or Iroquois, and the fort that of the place where it is built.
Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago
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Along the old lanes there is still the feeling of Nouvelle France, of fur-trappers and voyageurs, of hearty chaps in beaver hats and birch-bark canoes who disappeared into the interior to hunt, to fish and to marry Iroquois brides.
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Mr. Schoolcraft prefers, and quite justly the name Iroquois, as descriptive of this confederacy, instead of Six Nations, since the term is well known, and applicable to them in every part of their history.
An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830
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The differences between what happened at Fort William Henry and at Niagara need not be seen as evolutionary; the aftermath of battle had yielded many scalps and prisoners for the Iroquois at Niagara.
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The Australian was interested in Iroquois Falls because the Paper Company owns the whole town; they have made the streets and the municipality, and the stores, and they were good enough to rent premises to Dr. Monteith for his liquor store, to make some revenue.
Northern Ontario
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The soil in these fields, because it wasn't manured, quickly became depleted, forcing the Iroquois to relocate their villages to nearby areas.
Think Globally, Eat Locally – A Book Review in Three Parts
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Well, before he became the name of a Montreal suburb, in 1660, Dollard rounded up a posse of 16 volunteers to ambush an Iroquois attack on what became Montreal.
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Purchasing activities fell into private hands and land sales continued to erode Iroquois territories.
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Other Iroquois tried to board the shallop from their war canoes.
Champlain's Dream
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The _Iroquois_ and her sisters, built in the fifties, were vessels of the kind to which I have applied the term corvette, then very common in all navies; cruisers only; scouts, or commerce-destroyers.
From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life
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According to Haudenosaunee the indigenous name for the six nations that make up what Europeans call the Iroquois League tradition, the alliance was founded centuries before Europeans arrived.
1491: excerpts part 3
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The Iroquois traditionally lived in longhouses, impressively striking in appearance.
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Mr. Morgan (in his "League of the Iroquois," page 68,) states that to the last-named chief, or "sachem," the duty of watching the door was assigned, and that "they gave him a sub-sachem, or assistant, to enable him to execute this trust.
The Iroquois Book of Rites
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This was doubtless unauthorized, for as the ship passed on, the Confederate, which proved to be the McRae, discharged a broadside of grape-shot and langrage, part of the latter being copper slugs, which were found on the Iroquois's decks in quantities after the action.
The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3.
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Catlin had painted the Sioux; Bodmer, the Iroquois; but no one had yet chronicled the fierce Apache, and that was Hart's intent.
PAINT THE WIND
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Proto Iroquoian, and most of the Iroquois daughters prior to European contact, had no bilabials whatsoever.
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Avignon, where by one of the strange coincidences of travel he met his old voiturier Joseph “so embrowned by the sun that he might have passed for an Iroquois.”
Travels through France and Italy
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[54] This was in the winter of 1679-'80; and the Five Nations, included in the general term Iroquois, had not then made the conquest upon which the English afterward founded their claim to the country.
Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States
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Catlin had painted the Sioux; Bodmer, the Iroquois; but no one had yet chronicled the fierce Apache, and that was Hart's intent.
PAINT THE WIND
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The mother-right and gyneocracy among the Iroquois here plainly indicated is not overdrawn.
Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
