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4) The Iroquois
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Presents the history of the Iroquois in North America, from the first encounters with Europeans in the seventeenth century, their involvement in the American Revolution, and the lost of their land holdings and eventual assimilation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
5) The Iroquois
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Describes the history, social structure, and customs of the People of the Longhouse.
7) The Warriors
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As a member of the lacrosse team and of the Iroquois heritage, Jake knows how sacred the game is, but when he moves to a boarding school and plays for their team, he finds that Coach Scott is feeding untruths to his team about the game.
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"The League of the Iroquois was a true representational democracy-so much so that the United States Constitution is said to have been modeled on some of its tenets. But how, perhaps a thousand years before the time of Columbus, did the Five Iroquois Nations (the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca) come to end the bitter eye-for-eye warfare among them? What brought them together in an alliance based on the Great Law of Peace? And how was...
11) Peacemaker
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"A twelve-year-old Iroquois boy rethinks his calling after witnessing the arrival of a mystical figure with a message of peace in this historical novel based on the creation of the Iroquois Confederacy"--
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Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, musical icon Robbie Robertson learned the story of Hiawatha and his spiritual guide, the Peacemaker, as part of the Iroquois oral tradition. Now he shares the same gift of storytelling with a new generation.
Hiawatha was a strong and articulate Mohawk who was chosen to translate the Peacemaker's message of unity for the five warring Iroquois nations during the 14th century. This message not only succeeded in uniting...
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The song of Hiawatha: celebrates the heroic deeds of the legendary Ojibway Chief on miraculous birth, sent by the Great Spirit to lead his people. The story begins as fur trader Jean Bertrand, a French priest, and a native interpreter canoe through the Lake Superior region in search of Hiawatha. Tribesmen guided them to the lodge of his grandmother, Nokomis, where she and tribal leader lagoo tell Hiawatha's legendary story.
The Pathfinder: This historic...
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