HIST 2500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Wabanaki Confederacy, Wyandot People, Anglo-Ashanti Wars
16 Sep 2016
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The little ice age had severe impacts on farming communities (late 1200s) The plains religious belief held bison as central figure of the sacred earth. Medicine bundles a collection of sacred objects holding symbolic importance. Sun dance often involving some kind of bloodletting or self-torture. The 500 years before contact were marked by political transformations that produced confederacies and leagues among the iroquoians, the most successful and largest of which were the haudenosaunee (also known as the league of the tree of peace and. Power, or the five nations iroquois) and the wendat confederacy. These alliances were an effective means of reducing the prospect of long-running blood feuds between many bands and clans. Mi"kmaq, and maliseet (subsequently known as the wabanaki confederacy) in what are now the maritimes and much of modern new england. Warfare - chief way to gain power, prestige and revenge.
