USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

This group of Native Americans was the most powerful in this region. It was an alliance of 5 tribes that came together and formed the Iroquois League of Nations. Where was the group located?

A	Northwest
B	Eastern Woodlands
C	Southwest
D	Great Plains

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -"Iroquois” also refers to a group of five separate tribes. These five tribes were: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca. This diverse and influential group of Native people impacted the politics and history of their time, and their contributions to society and voices in media are still felt today.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Haudenosaunee is an alliance of Native Nations that reside in the state of New York. The Nations that make up this confederacy are the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida Mohawk and the Tuscarora. The people of the Cayuga Nation have called the land surrounding Cayuga Lake their homeland for hundreds of years.

Detailed explanation-3: -Some of the especially notable tribes were the Iroquois that held vast territories in Eastern America and the Ojibwe in the Midwest. But in the Southwest, the Comanche nation was the dominant tribe of the southern Great Plains.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Five Nations, comprised of the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk, united in confederation about the year A.D. 1200. This unification took place under the “Great Tree of Peace” and each nation gave its pledge not to war with other members of the confederation.

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