Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of (14578749229)

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Title: Archives of aboriginal knowledge. Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States

Year: 1860 (1860s)

Authors: Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864. dn United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. cn

Subjects: Indians of North America United States

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.

Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System

Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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new canton which was added to the original Mohawk league,augmented its strength and durabihty, and took nothing awaj. When, after long expe-rience of the working of the league, the five cantons admitted a sixth in the Tuscaroras,they were still more formidable to the surrounding nations. This was in 1712. Elevenyears afterwards, in a full council at Albany, tlioy received the seventh nation, in the

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ExsmiantTS .Army Deli Ji\L\D J A B W I Y . HISTORY, AND GOVERNMENT. 199 Necariages of Micliillimacinac and Lake Huron; a peo2)le from whom they had beenestranged since the first settlement of Lower Canada. They also received the Mississa^gues into their league, making the eighth nation. This was a people of five castles andeight hundred and lifty men. They were Algouquins, but faithfully adhered to theconfederacy, and fought with them against their enemies to the end. They first lived,agreeably to Cusic, north of the Niagara river, but moved north, occupying the head ofLake Ontario in Canada, where their descendants still live. The Iroquois also broughtofl, and adopted the Tutelos from Meherrin river in Virginia,^ and some other tribes ofthe Monahoac stock. Their error appears to be this; that they did not admit to theirconfederacy, with equal rights, all the nations whom they conquered; whereby theywould have become a most powerful confederacy, stretching from the banks of theMississ

архивы аборигенных знаний 1860 г. красный пиджак книжные иллюстрации этнология индейцы северной америки древняя история древности путешествие и описание высокое разрешение изображения из интернет-архива Канада

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