FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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Question
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the tribes to usually work well together
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more fighting between the tribes
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all five tribes to become known as the Cayugas
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The origins and growth of the Iroquois Confederacy Cemented mainly by their desire to stand together against invasion, the tribes united in a common council composed of clan and village chiefs; each tribe had one vote, and unanimity was required for decisions.
Detailed explanation-2: -They finally sold to British colonists their remaining claim to the lands south of the Ohio in 1768 at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix. Historian Pekka Hämäläinen writes of the League, “There had never been anything like the Five Nations League in North America.
Detailed explanation-3: -It united the ve nations into a League of Nations, or the Iroquois Confederacy, and became the basis for the Iroquois Confederacy Constitution5.
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.