Video: “History of the iroquois(five nations)”

-One thing I found interesting about this video is how all the 5 factions were able to co exist with eachother and not even spark conflict. The five factions being Mohawk, oneida, onondaga, cayuga, and the Seneca. They were able to coexist with each other because they joined together to create the Iroquois confederacy to keep the the peace between them and to solve any problems. Whats also facinating is that all of the tribes were independent of eachother and they were able to really build a civilization for themselves because of all the houses they built (long houses) and were able to share the hunting grounds and not get into conflict with each other. Something I found disturbing about this video is that it all came down when the American revolution came around and it pretty mush diminished any power the confederacy had.

 

Reading:  “Without Indigenous history, there is no US hostory”

-I find this article to be very truthfull in my opinion because no one is really American. I feel like the only americans are the indeans because they were the first people to live here and everybody is an immagrant. America is built on immigrants but the true founders or people who were living here were the native americans and I just found that point in the article/ title to be very interesting and kinda true. I also found it messed up that the federal government sized all of their land through 300 treaties.