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Title: Iroquois, Mingo, and Wyandot


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Iroquois, Mingo, and Wyandot
  • Chapter 1, Section 4

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Historic Indians
  • By 1650 ? Historic Indian groups came to Ohio
  • Lived after written history
  • Did not have their own written languages, however
    Europeans who met them did.
  • Written records from Europeans tell us a great
    deal about these Native Americans.

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Native American Legends
  • Stories, songs, and legends can also tell us much
    about early Native Americans
  • Legends ?stories passed down over time
  • Used to explain how everything in the world came
    to be
  • Used to tell a tribes history

4
Native American Legends
  • Tribe ? a group that shares the same language and
    has the same leaders
  • Legends often told how tribes first came to be
  • Legends provide clues about how the people saw
    their world
  • Tell much about a tribes history and culture

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Cultures and Conflict
  • Tribes used natural resources to survive, and to
    make goods for trade
  • Traded with each other for the resources they
    didnt have
  • Sometimes fought each other for control of land
    and resources

6
Cultures and Conflict
  • By early 1600s, Europeans began to settle in
    parts of North America
  • Settlements grew and spread into Native American
    territory --- conflict

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Cultures and Conflict
  • Europeans and Native Americans traded
  • Native Americans traded animal skins and furs for
    European goods such as cloth, glass, and metal
    tools and weapons
  • As fur trade increased, so did the demand for
    furs
  • Led to conflicts between Native Americans over
    hunting lands

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The Iroquois
  • 1650 ? came to Ohio from the Northeast
  • powerful fought and drove out other tribes who
    lived around Lake Erie and along Ohios rivers

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The Iroquois
  • Mostly wanted to hunt and trap animals in Ohio
    did NOT want to settle there
  • Fished, hunted deer, beavers, foxes, and mink
  • Became a major source of furs for European
    traders
  • Gathered nuts and fruits, grew corn, beans, and
    squash

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The Iroquois
  • Lived in villages and built large wooden homes
    called longhouses
  • Wooden poles frame sheets of bark cover
  • Small fires kept burning inside
  • Several families lived in one longhouse ? clan
  • Clans were led by women and often named after
    animals
  • Put their crest at their longhouse entrance

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The Iroquois
  • Each family slept on a platform
  • Weapons, tools, and baskets stored underneath
  • Pots, food, skins stored on shelves above the
    platform

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The Mingo
  • Related to the Iroquois spoke an Iroquois
    language and had similar customs also known as
    the Seneca
  • mid-1770s ? moved to Ohio from the east
  • Lived along the riverbanks of the Scioto and
    Sandusky Rivers in longhouses.
  • Communities develops near present-day Columbus

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The Mingo
  • The tribe was formed by members of the Iroquois
    and other tribes.
  • Some were hunters who had left the Iroquois
  • Others were members of tribes who had been
    defeated by the Iroquois

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The Mingo
  • At first, lived peacefully with the Iroquois
  • Treated as equals by the Iroquois
  • Members of the Mingo tribe were not allowed to
    serve as Iroquois leaders
  • Began to act more like their own tribe over time
  • 1750 ? conflicts with the Iroquois and European
    settlers pushed the Mingo tribe into eastern Ohio

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The Wyandot
  • 1650 ? Iroquois attacked tribes near Ontario to
    gain hunting land
  • Wyandot formed from tribes fleeing the Iroquois
  • mid-1700s ? moved into northern Ohio from Canada
  • Settled mainly in villages along the Sandusky
    River and the Huron River

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The Wyandot
  • Their language is related to the Iroquois
    language
  • Lived in longhouses
  • Women leaders chose the Wyandot chiefs
  • Fierce warriors
  • Strongly resisted European settlements near where
    they lived
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