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Iroquois
Iroquois meaning
A member of a confederacy of (originally) five Native American (Indian) tribes: the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, and the Senecas. | A kind of hairdo where both sides of the head are shaved, leaving only a stripe of hair in the middle.
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After The Fire (Ontario: East Georgian Bay Company, 1989), 3. With the knowledge of the invading Iroquois, Father Paul Ragueneau burned down Sainte-Marie instead of allowing the Iroquois the satisfaction of destroying it.
In a battle begun the next day, two hundred Iroquois advanced on Champlain's position, and one of his guides pointed out the three Iroquois chiefs.
Iroquois Park is the home of the renovated Iroquois Amphitheater, which hosts a variety of musical concerts in a partially covered outdoor setting.
The Jesuits continued to struggle with the Iroquois until 1687 when they abandoned their permanent posts in the Iroquois homeland.
When the Iroquois withdrew and the Anishnabeg / Ojibwa / Mississaugas moved in from the north to southern Ontario, they retained the Iroquois name.sfn The first documented European to reach the lake was Étienne Brûlé in 1615.
Iroquois women, who were responsible for farming, placed several kernels of corn in a hole.
LeZaks gave me a long list of other companies working in the space, including Mad Agriculture, Dirt Capital Partners, Walden Mutual Bank, Agriculture Capital, Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT, Steward, S.L.M. Partners, Potlikker Capital and Foodshed Capital.
Macquarie, also a secured creditor, accused management of Validus of defaulting on a $55.6-million loan arrangement signed in 2022 to allow Validus to buy the Iroquois Falls power plant.
Six Nations will host that battle, scheduled for Sunday at 7 p.m. at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena.
The math results revealed that an impressive 86.7 per cent of Iroquois Ridge students achieved a Level 3 or 4 understanding of math.
MANILA, Philippines — Twenty-six Chinese maritime militia vessels were at Iroquois (Rozul) Reef, according to an American maritime expert.
Initial testing indicated that the Arrow could, with Orenda Iroquois engines (then under development) exceed Mach 2 for a sustained period.
Iroquois/Doland (1-8): Katie Dubro finished with seven points and four rebounds.
The controversy to omit the Iroquois announced in late July sparked backlash from several Indigenous and allied communities.
They especially looked to Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) women’s power to appoint male political leadership, control their property, and have custodial rights to their children — those were legal rights white women did not have.
You’ll pass the tall wooden lookout that oversees the grounds (and beyond) of the annual Iroquois Steeplechase, which was canceled this year because of the pandemic, and along the route are scenic overlooks.
Cherokee, Ojibwe and Mohawk tribes all had different names for what the French branded “lacrosse,” as did the Iroquois native to Quebec.
How well has the Treaty of Canandaigua served its two sovereigns, the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations Iroquois) Confederacy and U.S. federal government?
It punished four of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Six Nations—the Senecas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Mohawks—for supporting the British during the American Revolution and required them to give up tribal territories in western New York and the Ohio Valley.
Pithy description: Iroquois Reading Council is dedicated to providing literacy for all.