The Iroquois

Before the arrival of Europeans in the 1600’s, the Five Nations of the Iroquois lived under a constitution that had three main principles, peace, justice, and the health of mind and body. The Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy offered compelling evidence of Native American rich and sophisticated cultures with their well established democratic government with a form of religion and a strong matriarchal system before the advent of Europeans.

The great majority of Marriages were always monogamous, but polygyny was permitted until recently, and it is estimated that about 10 percent of Navajo men had two or more wives. Residence for newly married couples was ideally uxorilocal, (meaning to reside with a wife's kin). It was also fairly common for couples to move from the wife's family or tribe to the husband's, at some time after their marriage. Both marriage and divorce involve very little formality, and the rate of divorce is fairly high. But the great majority of

2. Matrilineal : It's a type of native american culture. The clan/villiage your mother is born, then that will be your clan/village. It means that your're following your mother's side of the family.

The Iroquois are considered a branch of North American Indians, also known as Haudenosaunee or the “People of the Longhouse”. The Iroquois have greatly contributed to society through initiating the Iroquois confederacy also called the Iroquois League formed in 1570. The North American confederacy consists of five nations called: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca, which resided in what is now known as Upstate New York. These tribes joined together as the “ 5 civilized

The Iroquois League were Indians who stood together in time of need. They wanted peace and did not believe in fighting one another but fighting for the entire Iroquois League. I found this very unique to say the least the women were the leaders in this league known as clan mothers. Clan mothers were leaders of the long houses which is where the Iroquois League lived. When things started to happen Iroquois League began to change things to save themselves accordingly. When they realized they had something others wanted which was the fur from animals they hunted they changed what they were fighting for. Iroquois League were once fighting for revenge and they begun to fight for other reasons such as land which they used for hunting and furs. The Iroquois League traded furs from animals they hunted for goods from the Europeans. When the diseases came around the Iroquois League brought in more people as their own this was smart and also kept their numbers higher than

Before the Americas were colonized or even discovered Native Americans populated it. In North America there were different tribes distributed along the continent. These tribes all lived according to their environment. Their whole culture and lifestyle depended on it. Although there were no established states or regions; climate, weather, and physical environment changed throughout the territory.

1). The reason for the construction of the Iroquois confederacy, or the league of the Iroquois, (Haudenosaunee) was the impeding factor of disunity between the tribes. Hienwatha, a Mohawk Iroquois, lived in Ontario and observed the disunity between the Iroquois tribes. In an attempt to unify the nations, he approached rival tribes and argued the benefits of unification. Initially, his idea is shut down by the elders of each tribe. The changing climate that started to occur, however, increased confrontations between tribes. Hienwatha yet again tries to explain to the Iroquois people about the possibility of peace and is rejected again. He then alludes the nations to a weaved belt of wampum shells which supposedly illustrated the connectedness of the five Iroquois nations. He traveled among the nations, of which all then supported the idea of unity, and was able to form a seemingly impenetrable force.

The Northeast had great forests and many rivers and lakes. The Iroquois is one of the tribe that lived along the St. Lawrance river which is located in what is now known as New York State, so that they had some natural resources such as woods and animals meat.

The people dwelt in "towns" located in scattered autonomous tribal areas related by kinship throughout the southern Appalachian region.

The Iroquois were a Native American tribe living in the Northeast of the North American continent before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492. The people

Divorce is such a personal and common thing in America. There are so many couples who go through the act of divorce every day. According to Kanewicher and Harris (2014), forty to fifty percent of couples will end in divorce within the first few years of marriage. Divorce is the legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or other competent body. There are many factors that may lead couples into divorce. Some of those factors are, marrying too young, low education levels and overall just lack of preparation (Kanewischer, 2015). Although divorce is common now, it was not like this back in the late 1900’s. Divorce was not allowed and most of the time people did not want to get divorce because of all the time and effort they put into their marriage.

Divorce is a rising social issue in the United States of America, but it is not a new concept. Divorce has been a social issue since at least 1867 when for every 35.9 marriages, one couple were to get a divorce (Huth, 1947). Although divorce is not a new concept, it has become more social acceptance which is raising the divorce rate over the years. Another controversial topic in divorce is when the two people divorcing have a child or children together. Approximately 150,000-200,000 children in the United States of America are affected by divorce yearly (Huth, 1947).

Matrilineal in nature, the “crests and inheritance are passed down through the mother” (Talhtan Central Government, n.d.). Chiefdoms were inherited; however, a direct matrilineal descendant could be passed over for a person with higher prestige as “status was based on personal character and skills; wealth was a sign of competence” (Albright, 1984, p. 12). Intermarriage was only allowed between the two clans (Tahltan Tribe, 2013). Today, marriage is occurring within between members of the same clan and, while frowned upon by Tahltan elders, is no longer a social taboo (Lawley,

Kinship is how cultures define relationships with people who they think of as family. All

To understand divorce, one must first understand where marriage came from. Marriage is another tradition that has been around for as long as anyone can remember. However “modern divorce patterns date back to 200 years, to the invention of the historically unprecedented idea that marriage should be based on love and mutual affection” (Coontz, par. 1). Before that marriage would simply be a transaction or deal between families. A deal that could involve the attainment of a physical matter or to continue the family line. That was the purpose of marriage back then. Mutual affection between people was not uncommon at the time. However most cultures at the time thought of marrying for a fragile and selfish reason like love was irresponsible (Coontz, par. 6). As time carried on the