How Cartier And Champlain Made Enemies Of The Haudenosaunee

How does Champlain’s account of the battle with the Iroquois belie commonly held assumptions about Indian warfare?

Before the Europeans came to Canada, Natives had their own culture, traditions and norms. These differences were obvious to the Europeans who sailed to Canada, their interactions with the Native peoples proved these vast differences. One major difference noted was that the Iroquois organized their societies on different lines than did the patrilineal western Europeans. Iroquois women “by virtue of her functions as wife and mother, exercised an influence but little short of despotic, not only in the wigwam but also around the council fire.” “She indeed possessed and exercised all civil and political power and authority. The country, the land, the fields with their harvests and fruits belonged to her … her plans and wishes modeled the policy and inspired the decisions of council.” The Europeans were astounded by this way of life.

The Pequot War started in 1636 and ended in 1637. The war consisted of the Pequot people and a coalition of English settlers from the Massachusetts Bay. It was a brutal war and was the first sustained conflict between Native Americans and Europeans in northeastern North America.

He formed strong alliances some tribes such as Wendat, Algonquin and Montagnais. These tribes live around Saint Lawrence River. The tribes demanded that Champlain must lead them in war against the Iroquois tribe. The Iroquois inhabited the south area of Richelieu River. The Iroquois had an alliance with England and Dutch, and thus had superior troops. They had an interest on the fur trade that put the two colonies in friction over the control of the trade. They frequently attacked the French and the tribes in alliance with them to push them trade the fur to the Dutch and English tradesmen. Champlain set off with French troops and native warriors to explore the area and as a result Champlain drew the map of Lake Champlain. During the exploration some Iroquois natives advanced in against Champlain men and war broke up. The battle was put to an end after Champlain and his soldiers killed three chiefs of the Iroquois. This strained the French – Iroquois relations further but later Champlain negotiated for a treaty that reconciled the two sides.

Since the French landed along St. Lawrence River in Canada, many became traders befriending the Native Americans and living calmly together. In 1756, Britain and France declared war with each other transforming the hostilities in North America into a global conflict. France and England had been enemies for generations and had already fought for power in Europe, America, Asia, and Africa. The British and the French both set their intentions on the Forks of the Ohio because of the popular riverside region. In early stages of the war, the British were appearing catastrophic while the French, hopeful. The British suffered a series of defeats against the French and their broad network of Native American alliances such as the displaced Indians, the Shawnees and the Delawares. At this time, the Iroquois remain neutral. Later under William Pitt, the

The Iroquois nations, one of the oldest and most prestigious tribes in the history of all Native Americans. In this paper I will be showing why the Iroquois ended up siding with the English through the French and Indian, and Revolutionary wars through factors of colonization. I will also be showing some features of their culture, considering the iroquois are not well known in the western United States, and discussing the fall of the once great tribes. The main reason I 've chosen the Iroquois is because of my own prior knowledge of the Iroquois, and their relationship to lacrosse. I started playing lacrosse my freshman year of highschool. The very first thing I learned, before any stick skills or any basics of the game, was the history of it. Our coach insisted that we knew the history and the culture of the game, and that we respected it. I was intrigued by how interesting the game was. The game was made as a form of war. Lacrosse was sometimes even referred to as “Little brother of war”. It would be called this because injury, even death were common during a lacrosse game. When two tribes had a disagreement, but didn 't feel the need to have a legitimate war, the opposing tribes would send their best warriors to the battlefield and play a lacrosse game. Games would be played to a score of 5-7, but considering how long the fields could be, these games could take hours, days even, however long it took for one of the tribes to win,

In the 1740s, commercial competition between France and Great Britain had intensified, and war broke out in 1744. Ottawa warriors fought on the side of the French, as they did in all four major wars from 1689-1763 (Eckert, 127).

The Ohio Country Native Americans initially attempted to remain neutral in hopes to keep their land, but eventually sided with France because France was their principal trading partner.

Cartier’s thorough explorations of the St. Lawrence Gulf created the main gateway for Europeans to access North America (Ages of Exploration - Jacques Cartier).

On November 11, 1775, Joseph Brant traveled to London to persuade the crown to give the Iroquois land in Quebec if they agreed to help fight with the British. When Brant returned to New York in 1776, he prepared to retake New York. He fought alongside Clinton, Cornwallis, and Percy in the Battle of Long Island. In November of 1776, Brant left New York, and traveled to the colonist held territory. As he went through each colony, he urged each and every Iroquois to fight alongside the British soldiers. (Chief Joseph Brant: Mohawk, Loyalist, and Freemason.)

The center of the fur trade thus shifted northward to the colder regions along the St. Lawrence River, controlled by the Hurons, who were the close trading partners of the French in New France. The Iroquois, who considered themselves to be the most civilized and advanced people of the region, found themselves displaced in the fur trade by other tribes in the region. Threatened by disease and with a declining population, the Iroquois began an aggressive campaign to expand their area of control.” The Iroquois were known for their fur trading and they were enemies with the Huron because of the fur trading business. There was a shortage of beaver in the region that the Iroquois controlled so then the colonizers had to trade with the Huron. The Iroquois were enemies with the Huron so they did not appreciate this. This war lasted for 56 years until the “Great Peace” was finally signed in 1701. The Iroquois agreed to stop fighting and ambushing the

Bickering and dispute led to a war among two countries. It was a battle to determine which country would be rendered as superior in North America. Superior means "higher in rank, status, and quality" and neither one of these two countries were going to back down from the ultimate fight. The French and Indian War, as it was titled, reigned on from the year of 1754 to that of 1763. It all began with conflicts over territory and land. At the time, the French explorers had been the first Europeans to settle along disparate bodies of water, such as the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, as well as the Great Lakes. It was among these areas that the French settlers had been able to establish trading centers, thus beginning the Fur Trade, one of the ealrier

The Algonquin (Indians) and the French people are first shown in an area of Quebec in the 17th century. Both groups seem to be similar in that they both have a leader and dress similarly. However, looks can be deceiving as they have many cultural differences and various beliefs. These differences create misunderstandings, and lead the French to believe the Algonquin to be a group of savages. The Algonquin also believe the French to not be very intelligent. However, a mission to Huron territory changes both the Algonquin and French, and causes them to better understand each other, creating tolerance, and eventually cultural rapprochement.

Battles help students realize the perspectives of each side. For an example, Battle on the Plains of Abraham and Battle of Seven Oaks have perspectives of British and French or Scottish and The Metis,which makes students become more aware of which side they agree on . However, both of these battles started with a vengeance, hatred and wrongdoings, but differ in the terms of their elaborate details, specific reasons, and surprising results after the fighting.

Pequots are native americans where the war is name after. During the time that the Indians have their memory of the people were in the world that would do a lot of singing and dancing. One thing that is really shocking is that only a few people know that the native americans and colonial history. By the 1610s and the 1620s, the dutch and the Pequots had uneasy, but a mutually beneficial to help out. The important part I got from this was that the history that the Pequots. We all don't know who they really are because there never in our history books. While we do read our history