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A 4 page overview of the formation and ultimate dissolution of the Iroquois League. This League lasted almost a century and gave the Native Americans a cohesive voice in one of the most turbulent times of history. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Five Nations was one of the strongest alliances ever formed by the Native American peoples. Although many tribes formed loose confederations at one time or another, none were as
long-lived as the Iroquois Confederacy. Starting sometime around the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century this alliance was comprised of five of the Iroquois
nations (thus the name League of Five Nations) (Nicholas, 1995). Ultimately, however, the confederacy included six diverse yet somewhat similar groups. These were the Seneca, the Mohawk, the
Cayuga, the Oneida, and the Onondaga, and (starting in 1722) the Tuscarora. The alliance was formed to cement the relationships between these groups to allow them to act collectively
in response to the growing stimuli presented by the white invaders to their lands. It allowed cohesive control of lands extending from northern New York to southern Canada, Kentucky,
Eastern Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The same factor instigating the formation of the League, however, would instigate its deterioration. That factor would be the growing interaction with the European
peoples and the continually changing relationships with those peoples. Prior to contact with the Europeans who invaded their lands, Native American tribes had
only loose intertribal alliances. Formed in order to assure survival, these alliances were far removed from the military alliances they faced in their European foes. Even after the
arrival of the Europeans and the obvious need for intertribal military alliances, the Native Americans formed few such alliances. Three of the most important were the Pueblo Revolt of
1680, Potiacs rebellion which spanned between 1763 and 1766, and the alliance attempted by Tecumseh and his brother Tenskawatawa (The Prophet) between 1807 and 1812. The League Nations, in
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