Iroquois Dam, also known as the Iroquois Control Dam, is a significant piece of infrastructure located on the St. Lawrence River in Canada. The dam is...
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The Iroquois (/ˈɪrəkwɔɪ, -kwɑː/ IRR-ə-kwoy, -kwah), also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred...
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Beaver Wars (redirect from French Iroquois Wars)
Tsianì kayonkwere), also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars (French: Guerres franco-iroquoises), were a series of conflicts fought...
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Americans who formed the confederacy of the Five Nations Iroquois, later the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy. Historically, these stories were recorded...
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the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma. Some Seneca also live with other Iroquois peoples on the Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario. The Seneca Nation...
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Cuyahoga River (redirect from Dams on the Cuyahoga River)
and Warren, PA that are related to the New York Hopewell offshoot. The Iroquois say that, when the Erie first moved into western Pennsylvania, they pushed...
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Lake Iroquois is a 247-acre (1.00 km2) reservoir in northwestern Vermont, bordered by three towns: Hinesburg, Williston, and Richmond. Lake Iroquois (formerly...
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Tonawanda Reservation (category Iroquois populated places)
Seneca, along with other Iroquois, migrated with Joseph Brant to the Grand River reservation in the still British-controlled territory of upper Canada...
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South Dundas (redirect from Iroquois, Ontario)
Saint Lawrence, now extends from a hydroelectric dam at Cornwall to the control structure at Iroquois, and replaces the formerly narrow and turbulent section...
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Allegheny River (section Locks, dams and bridges)
Reservoir, which was created by the erection of the Kinzua Dam in 1965 for flood control. The name of the river is derived from one of a number of Delaware/Unami...
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Sault) or Ingleside and Iroquois. In 2008, Ontario Hydro made an official apology. The construction and operation of the dam impacted the traditional...
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Seneca people (category Iroquois)
America. Their nation was the farthest to the west within the Six Nations or Iroquois League (Haudenosaunee) in New York before the American Revolution. For...
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northwestern Pennsylvania came under American control following the 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix with the Iroquois Confederacy. The following year, a boundary...
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Allegany Indian Reservation (category Iroquois populated places)
groups during the Beaver Wars beginning in 1638, as the Iroquois Confederacy sought to control the lucrative fur trade with the French and Dutch colonists...
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finally disappeared. Abitibi Pulp and Paper Co. Ltd. was founded in 1912 at Iroquois Falls, Ontario on the Abitibi River by Frank Harris Anson. The following...
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expressed a desire to be a missionary to the Iroquois people. It was founded about 1755 by several Catholic Iroquois families, primarily Mohawk, who moved upriver...
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generation, flood control and recreation. It is Oklahoma's first hydroelectric power plant and is referred to as the longest multiple-arch dam in the world...
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the lands in all of upstate New York into the Ohio Country were controlled by the Iroquois Confederation, but were also effectively depopulated, the tribes...
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state capital of Albany. The river is named for the Mohawk Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy. A major waterway, in the early 19th century, the river's east-west...
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Americans also wanted the Iroquois to remain neutral. As the war progressed, however, the British began encouraging the Iroquois to "take up the hatchet...
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William N. Fenton, an ethnologist who studied and wrote about the Seneca and Iroquois Confederacy. A political progressive, Heron was a member of the New Deal...
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succumbed to Iroquois conquest by the powerful Five Nations of the Iroquois League based in present-day New York, who wanted to control the fur trade...
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Niagara Parks Commission American Falls Bridal Veil Falls (Niagara Falls) Iroquois mythology Wikimedia Commons has media related to Horseshoe Falls. "Niagara...
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Sullivan Expedition (category Iroquois)
British-allied nations of the Iroquois (also known as the Haudenosaunee). The campaign was ordered by George Washington in response to Iroquois and Loyalist attacks...
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Grand Valley Dam, located near the village of Belwood, helps to control the flow of water, especially during periods of spring flooding. The dam, completed...
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structure, his theories of social evolution, and his ethnography of the Iroquois. Interested in what holds societies together, he proposed the concept that...
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Ohio River (redirect from Dams on the Ohio River)
been given as translations. Native Americans, including the Lenape and Iroquois, considered the Ohio and Allegheny rivers as the same, as is suggested...
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the French, British and Iroquois during the French and Indian Wars from 1688 to 1763; ultimately the British would hold control of the region following...
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about Seneca and Iroquois life. Jesse Cornplanter wrote and illustrated Legends of the Longhouse (1938), which records many Iroquois traditional stories...
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Three Sisters (agriculture) (category Iroquois)
drainage, both of which benefit maize planted in spring. In Haudenosaunee or Iroquois farming, the fields were not tilled, enhancing soil fertility and the sustainability...
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