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Iroquois History and Legends

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Feb 26, 2018

How would you fare in your faith when you are faced with certain death?  In 1782 a community of Lenape (Delaware) Christians were victims to one of the most heinous acts in American History.

Sources:

Diary of David Zeisberger by David Zeisberger

GUYASUTA AND THE FALL OF INDIAN AMERICA BY BRADY J. CRYTZER

SIMON GIRTY -...


Feb 18, 2018

After numerous requests we are back with two more Haudenosaunee animal tales.  In the first Turtle leads a war party of misfit animals against Huk-sah, the Jungie.  In the second Brown Owl and Weasel are featured in a dark story of revenge kindercide. 

Sources:

Reworked and based on traditional Seneca Nation stories.  


Feb 8, 2018

Joseph Brant, Colonel Louis Cook, Walter Butler and Simon Girty deal with the horrors of war and the devastation of the Great Lakes region.

Sources:

Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution by Joseph T. Glatthaar and James Kirby Martin

Joseph Brant, 1743-1807, Man of Two Worlds By Isabel Thompson...