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The Iroquoian languages are a First Nation and Native American language family in North America. They are known for their general lack of labial consonants. Iroquoian languages are polysynthetic and head-marking.
Today, all surviving Iroquoian languages except Cherokee and Mohawk are severely endangered, with only a few elderly speakers remaining.
Scholars are finding that what has been called the Laurentian language appears to be more than one dialect or language.
In 1649 the tribes constituting the Huron and Petun confederations were displaced by war parties from Five Nations villages (Mithun 1985). Many of the survivors gathered, ultimately forming the Wyandot tribe. Ethnographic and linguistic field work with the Wyandot (Barbeau 1960) yielded enough documentation for scholars to characterize and classify the Huron and Petun languages.
The languages of the tribes that constituted the Wenrohronon, Neutral and the Erie confederations were very poorly documented. These groups were called Atiwandaronk, meaning 'they who understand the language' by the Huron. They are historically grouped with them.
The Iroquois (/ˈɪrəkwɔɪ/ or /ˈɪrəkwɑː/), also known as the Haudenosaunee (/ˈhoʊdənoʊˈʃoʊni/), are a historically powerful and important northeast Native American confederacy. They were known during the colonial years to the French as the "Iroquois League," and later as the "Iroquois Confederacy," and to the English as the "Five Nations" (before 1722), and later as the "Six Nations", comprising the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora peoples.
The Iroquois have absorbed many other peoples into their cultures as a result of warfare, adoption of captives, and by offering shelter to displaced nations.
The historic Erie, Susquehannock, and Wyandot (Huron), all independent peoples, spoke Iroquoian languages. In the larger sense of linguistic families, they are often considered Iroquoian peoples because of their similar languages and cultures, all culturally and linguistically descended from the Proto-Iroquoian people and language; but they were traditionally enemies of the nations in the Iroquois League.
War of the American Indians : Documentary on the History of the Iroquois . 2013 This documentary as well as the rest of these documentaries shown here relate. After the Civil War, thousands of Americans poured into the Great Plains on a collision course with western Indian tribes. Homesteaders, ranchers, and miners. an interesting documentary about the Indians in U.S.A. and the wars about them and the government of the new State and future superpower. Native American Indian war dance by Cherokee tribe from North Carolina during First Peoples Festival. Motivational speaker Clint Cora .
Tribes in the World Documentary Channel Thanks for watching! Don't forget like,share and subscribe if you like! War of the American Indians : Documentary on . War of the American Indians Documentary on the History of the Iroquois. War of the American Indians : Documentary on the History of the Iroquois . 2013 This documentary as well as the rest of these documentaries shown here relate. Credit: Discovery Channel documentary War of the American Indians Documentary on the History of the Iroquois Fair use act (FBI) allows me to mirror this video.
A Documentary Short on the Iroquois Indian's lifestyle inside a longhouse created by Westbrook Shortell, Daniel Jackson, Dan Scharfenberger and Nicholas Varga. Please leave comments on our video. It's important to us to know what you think of the work we did our last semester of College.
The people of the Six Nations, also known by the French term, Iroquois Confederacy, call themselves the Haudenosaunee (ho dee noe sho nee) meaning People of the Long House. Located in the northeastern region of North America, originally the Six Nations was five and included the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas. The sixth nation, the Tuscaroras, migrated into Iroquois country in the early eighteenth century. Together these peoples comprise the oldest living participatory democracy on earth. Their story, and governance truly based on the consent of the governed, contains a great deal of life-promoting intelligence for those of us not familiar with this area of American history. The original United States representative democracy, fashioned by such central authors as Benjamin...
See how the mighty Iroquois Confederacy dominated the Eastern North American woodlands up to European and American domination.
Iroquois Stick Dance - Bear Mountain PowWow - Redhawk Native Arts MOV081
Guhnawiyostha' - Sydney Calfrobe, Deer Clan Tsadeyohdi - Denise Waterman, Turtle Clan This video, filmed on location at the Onondaga Nation School, focuses on the meaning of the name “Haudenosaunee” and includes information about the duties of the Six Nations as well as the use of the name “Iroquois” throughout history. This video accompanies New York State Education Department ELA curriculum module 4M1A.