Article: Indian Treaties, Colonial
Dictionary of American History;      679 words ......system was the covenant chain of northeastern...nations of the Iroquois and various...to use the covenant chain to extend their...x2014; the Iroquois over the Shawnees...The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation...

Article: The Albany Conference
American Eras;      700+ words ......nearly destroyed the British relationship with the Iroquois and that these disputes were allowing the French...foster colonial unity and restore the “ Covenant Chain, ” the relationship between the British colonial government and the Iroquois. Covenant Chain. By the ...

Article: 1600-1754: Native Americans: Chronology
American Eras;      700+ words ......alliance known as the Covenant Chain with the League of the Iroquois, a confederacy of five...the tribe. 1648 The Iroquois launch a massive attack...the Beaver Wars the Iroquois have destroyed the Hurons...raids into the heart of Iroquois country that lasts for...seek refuge among ...

Article: Restoring the shine to a tarnished covenant: Presbyterians are called to live out the church's confession.(THE PATH TO HEALING: covenant)
Presbyterian Record;  February 1, 2007 ;     697 words ......belt of 1692 records the treaty known as the Covenant Chain. A silver covenant chain was fashioned with three links representing...maintain its shine. Silver was selected for the covenant chain as a reminder that treaty relationships...

Article: Iroquois Indians
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      209 words ...Iroquois Indians, confederacy of war‐like but highly cultured...as Hiawatha by Longfellow. The trade relations of the Iroquois with the Dutch led to their obtaining firearms, with which...Besides Hiawatha and the Leather‐Stocking Tales, the Iroquois figure in such works as Alfred B. Street's ...

Article: Jacques René de Brisay Denonville, marquis de
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      93 words ......New France (1685-89). To subdue the Iroquois he led a force of 3,000 French and Native American enemies of the Iroquois into the Seneca country in W New York...Subsequently, he invited a number of Iroquois to a peace conference, and, betraying...

Article: Deganawida
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ......instrumental in founding the League of the Iroquois. Deganawida is best known as the great...with Hiawatha, founded the League of the Iroquois. Although the story of Deganawida's life...addition to his persuasive vision of unified Iroquois tribes, Deganawida was instrumental in...

Article: Comte de Frontenac et Palluau
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ......commander of French forces against the Iroquois and the English colonies during King...brought the French into conflict with the Iroquois, who were allied with the English of...Frontenac's successors struggled to curb the Iroquois and retain control of the west, with...

Article: Iroquois
Dictionary of American History;      700+ words ...IROQUOIS IROQUOIS. The Iroquois of the seventeenth century were a confederation of five closely related but separate nations: the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas. Around the year 1500, these were independent nations speaking related...

Article: Morgan, Lewis Henry
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      217 words ......Knot, later called The Grand Order of the Iroquois, superficially patterned after the Iroquois Confederacy. The casual desire to know more...Morgan into a serious investigation of the Iroquois, which in turn led to research concerning...

Article: Yankee Energy sells Iroquois interests.
Business Wire;  April 30, 1996 ;     467 words ......NYSE:YES) (Yankee Energy) announced today the sale of its entire 10.5 percent interest in the Iroquois Pipeline (Iroquois) to three of Iroquois' existing partners. Yankee Energy's management was one of the original developers and owners of...

Article: (book review)
The Historian;  March 22, 2000 ;     534 words ...The Iroquois in the War of 1812. By Carl Benn. (Toronto...people, a reasonably coherent narrative of Iroquois participation on the Niagara frontier...the memoirs of John Norton, a Canadian Iroquois participant, who played an important...

Article: Martin says all the right things to chiefs. (News).(Paul Martin)
Wind Speaker;  August 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......He stated his understanding of the Two-Row Wampum and the covenant chain, saying the Two-Row signified two entities travelling side-by-...with each in control of its own affairs. He added that the covenant chain was the important link to keep the two canoes from drifting...

Article: Iroquois Falls
Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names;      42 words ...Iroquois Falls, Ontario/Canada Named, according to a legend, after the falls on the River Abitibi where some Iroquois were swept to their deaths after some Huron, with whom they were at war, had untied their moored canoes one night when the Iroquois were asleep in them.