ANT241Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Iroquoian Languages, Mohawk Language, Kanesatake, Quebec
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Ant241 y lecture 18 iroquois move to canada. Iroquoian language family (examples from new york state) Not one of the indigenous people of canada (but today they are) We will be tracing the history of these people and the implications on their rights. Five nations iroquois confederacy (haudenosaunee = people of the longhouse) Homelands: where villages are located (horticulturalists mainly) underneath lake ontario. But they also hunted in the limits of territory (much bigger) James bay (north); king bridges of georgia (south) (but they went far and wide for raiding expeditions) After the iroquois defeated the huron, there were no natives in the region. Many of the mohawk had adopted huron captives: helped the jesuits who tried to convert the iroqouis down south because huron were already exposed to them. Thus, there were many mohawk who became christians (both new. Mohawk who were previously exposed to christianity as huron, and old.
