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    Chapter 12 Outline An Age of Reform Nick Nola Intro: Abby Kelley was a devoted and courageous Quaker who preached against slavery. She was a popular abolitionist lecturer and gave many speeches at town halls and homes. Her demands for reform and being a successful orator led way to a change in women’s rights. Her unconventional ways spanned not only through speaking, but in her family life as well. The Reform Impulse Abolitionism was one of the numerous efforts that helped improve American

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    children. The Haudenosaunee Grand Council of Chiefs, has three name The Haudenosaunee Grand Council of Chiefs, Iroquois League Council and the Six Nations Confederacy Council. There are 50 chiefs in all. The Seneca nation has eight chiefs, the Oneida and the Mohawk nation has nine chiefs, Onondaga has fourteen members, and the Cayuga nation has ten chiefs. There are three main reasons that the Iroquois formed this Political organization. One, so there is peace between neighbors and neighboring

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    Canada and most of the members live in northeastern United States. The Iroquois speak many different languages; they are known as the Iroquoian languages. The Iroquoian languages are different for each tribe which are: the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora languages. It is even said that apart from their Iroquoian languages, they even spoke a clan language along with French and English (“Iroquois”). Many other Native American tribes also use the Iroquoian languages to speak and

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    The Confederacy, also known as the league of nations, are five separate nations with an agreement to live under the Great Law as provided by the Peacemaker. Each nation is known as follows: Mohawk- The People of the Flint Oneida. The People of the Upright Stone, Onondaga. The People of the Hills Cayuga. The People of the Great Swamp Seneca. The People of the Great Hill Tuscarora-the Shirt Wearing People Wyendot Delaware.The European’s view on Indian attitudes towards personal

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    Thus, this cultural investigation regarding corn has helped me to better understand that western narratives about corn focus on the values of individualism, namely independence (i.e. the separateness of different beings) and how natural resources can be beneficial to humans. Whereas the examples of American Indian myths and legends are part of an expansive knowledge keeping system that expresses a relational accountability between humans and all other beings. American Indian stories about corn

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    Seneca Indians: Allies and Enemies      Seneca are among the most respected and feared. The Seneca are culturally similar to their Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, an Mohawk confederates. The five tribes were known as the Five Nations or the League of Five Nations. Sometime between 1715 and 1722 the Tuscaroras from North Carolina joined the confederacy and changed the name to the Six Nations.      In their relations with white settlers the Seneca played

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    daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carlos and Oneida Alegría. She was born on March 5th,1998 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Her paternal grandparents were Mr. Richard and Marcela Alegria, who were well known for their seafood business and involvement in the Corpus Christi community. Corina’s maternal grandparents were señor y señora Nicéforo y Estella Gutierrez, who originated from Tamaulipas, México. She is the beloved youngest sister of 2 elder siblings, Servando and Oneida Estella. Corina began her education

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    York during the 17th and 18th centuries and that played a critical role in the struggle between the British and the French for the control of North America. The five nations characterized themselves as the “members of the longhouse” and included the Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, Mohawk, and Onondaga. Later in 1722, the Tuscarora tribe joined the Confederacy, and consequently, the British renamed the league as the Six Nations in the same year in Albany New York (Richter, Merrell, & Washburn 33). According

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    where they live. Which can be limited and causing it to be “bad”. To further support that this poem is about Native Americans Kenzie Allen write, “Say you dream / in Oneida at night, show-and-tell them rose rock / and kachina,” I was unaware of what Oneida was and thought it was important as it was capitalized. What was discovered was Oneida is a tribe of six million acre land which is now central New York state. As well as Kenzie Allen is a descendant of this tribe. Then when the speaker mentions rose

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    Confederacy. The Confederacy sometimes referred to as the Six Nations, comprised of the six individual tribes: Seneca, Onondaga, Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, and later the Tuscarora. It quickly became evident that both the British and Americans would need to form alliances with the Iroquois to win the Revolution. The colonists were able to sway members of the Oneida and Tuscarora tribes to their cause. While thanks to preestablished relationships the British had the support of most Onondaga, Seneca, Mohawk

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