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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Iroquois |
 | | Science", XLIV (Salem, 1896); MORGAN, "League of the Hodenosaunee or Iroquois" (Rochester, 1851); "Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York", ed. | | | One reason for this conclusion was the hostile attitude assumed toward the French missionaries by the new English government of New York. | | | Accordingly it was decided to attempt to draw out these Christians from the tribes and colonize them into mission towns in the neighbourhood of the French, to be a nucleus of conversion and an additional strength against the Iroquois enemy. |
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| | Iroquois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In the 2000 census, 80,822 people in the United States claimed Iroquois ethnicity, with 45,217 of them claiming only Iroquois background. | | | In 1779, George Washington ordered Col. Daniel Brodhead and General John Sullivan to lead expeditions against the Iroquois nations to "not merely overun, but destroy," the British-Indian alliance. | | | The Iroquois nations' political union and democratic government has been credited by some as one of the influences on the United States Constitution. |
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| | Iroquois - MSN Encarta |
| | The Iroquois Confederacy, thought to have been founded in the late 16th century, originally consisted of five tribes—the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca—in what is now central New York State. | | | Central to Iroquois religious beliefs was Orenda, the Great Spirit and the Creator, from whom all other spirits were derived. | | | The Iroquois, as the largest group of Iroquoian peoples, gave their name to the language family of which they are a part. |
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| | Iroquois mythology - Free Encyclopedia |
| | The first people were created by Iosheka, a beneficient god who heals disease, defeated demons and gave many of the Iroquois magical and ceremonial rituals, as well as tobacco, a central part of the Iroquois religion. | | | The Oki is the personification of the life-force of the Iroquois, as well as the name of the life force itself. | | | Hahgwehdiyu is the creator god; he planted a single maize plan in his mother's (Atahensic) body. |
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| | Department of Anthropology University of Waterloo |
| | 2000 - Iroquois Policy and Iroquois Culture: Two Histories and an Anthropological Ethnohistory. | | | 1997 - Iroquois: The War Kettle and the Tree of Peace. | | | 1992 - Beavers and Muskets: Iroquois Military Fortunes in the Face of European Colonization. |
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| | UH-1 Iroquois |
| | The Bell UH-1 Iroquois, commonly known as the "Huey," was a multipurpose military helicopter, famous for its use in the Vietnam war. | | | It was developed from 1955 US Army trials from the Bell Model 204, the initial designation of HU-1 (helicopter utility) led to its nickname. | | | M240 7.62 mm machine gun, or GAU-17 7.62 mm machine gun, or GAU-16.50 calibre machine gun |
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