ANTH 208 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Iroquois, Tuscarora People, Onondaga People
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Iroquois have long reach of power and influence second only to full-fledged civilizations of mexico and south america. Other native american tribes in new england and virginia eventually fell under their power becoming essentially dependent nations. At time of this being written not much known in the way of concrete history of the. Iroquois but by 18th century united the five nations" they"d been divided into to a. League", mostly in what will become new york state. Used to be further north and at the behest of an algonquin tribe in the. Gained power at least partially through warfare and after gaining power were at war with adirondacks for a while. Dutch arrived in the 1600s and at that point there were many tribes surrounding the. Iroquois some of which were subject to them and paid tribute, had reached the point of a powerful and large (in population and relatively in territory) confederacy, near general supremacy of northeast.
