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Title: America: an encyclopaedia of its history and biography
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Newman, Stephen Morrell. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, Coburn & Cook publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nees further south, together withsome other less important clans. Massa-soit. King Philip, Powhattan and hisdaughter Pocahontas, Black Hawk, Pon-tiac and Tecumseh, were all members ofthis extensive family. When settlementsbegan to be made, about the year 1600,it is thought that this nation numberednot far from two hundred and fiftythousand. Within this Algonquin territory, shutin closely on every side, lay the Huron-Iroquois family. Of these the Hurons,among whom was the field of the Jesuitsmost successful labor, had their townseast of Lake Huron, the Andastes dwelton the Susquehanna, the Eries upon thesouthern shore of Lake Erie, the NeutralNation on the northern shore of the samelake, while the Iroquois proper, dwelt inCentral New York, from the Hudson tothe Genesee. The latter, who have ta-ken such a prominent place in the colonialhistory of the United States, were gain-ing great power when the country wasdiscovered. The Iroquois confederacy wascomposed at that time of five tribes,
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86 INTRODUCTORT STUDIES. distributed in the following order fromeast to west, in Central New York: Mo-hawks, Oneidas, Onandagas, Cayugasand Senecas. In 1713 the Tuscaroraswere admitted to the confederacy, andsince then they have been known in his-tory as the Six Nations instead of the Five Nations, as before that date.Their league was of the republican order,and very strong. The different tribeswere bound together by eight differenttotems, to each of which, some portion ofthe Senecas, Cayugas and Onandagasbelonged, and to three of which somejDortion of the Oneidas and Mohawks be-longed. The totems were the Wolf,Bear, Beaver, Turtle, Deer, Snipe, Heron,and Hawk. The Mohawks and Onei-das belonged to the Wolf, Bear and Tur-tle. These difTerent tribes were thuscrossed by several strong bands, like somany ties of relationship weaving theirtough threads through all the affairsof the league. Hendrick, Cornplanter,Red Jacket, Brant, Dr. Wilson andGen. Parker, were all members of theIroquois.

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