FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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500
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50
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5
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The resulting confederacy, whose governing Great Council of 50 peace chiefs, or sachems (hodiyahnehsonh), still meets in a longhouse, is made up of six nations: the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora .
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1570 five tribes joined to form the most complex Native-American nation of its time, the “Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee, ” or League of the Iroquois. The league was run by a council made up of 50 representatives from each of the five member tribes.
Detailed explanation-3: -The origins and growth of the Iroquois Confederacy Under the Great Law of Peace (Gayanesshagowa), the joint jurisdiction of 50 peace chiefs, known as sachems, or hodiyahnehsonh, embraced all civil affairs at the intertribal level.
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.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Iroquois Confederation was governed by a Grand Council of fifty chiefs: the Onondaga sent fourteen chiefs to the council, the Cayuga, ten, the Oneida and Mohawk, nine each, and the Seneca, eight.