Most everyone has heard of the Constitution of the United States, and some people can even name some of the authors and signers of the Constitution. But did you know that one of the major influences ...

Over 800 years ago the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy was established during a total solar eclipse. Before the United States created its Constitution, Indigenous nations among the Fingerlakes ...

A summer scene at the Iroquoian Village, Southern Ontario, Canada. Before the United States was born, the Iroquois Confederacy was one of the great powers of North America. It was a gathering of ...

NMAI copy 39088009653973 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, S. Dillon Ripley Endowment, From his friends, 1993. Contents Adodaroh (Tadadaho) -- Adoption -- Affiliated nations of the ...

The teams participating in the World Lacrosse Championships in England represent 30 nations, from Argentina to Latvia to South Korea to Iroquois. The Iroquois helped invent lacrosse and, in a rare ...

In April of 1953, more than 200 members of the Iroquois Confederacy confronted the Vermont House of Representatives seeking redress for over two million acres of land that had been, they claimed, ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A national archaeology preservation group has bought two former Cayuga Indian village sites in New York’s Finger Lakes region as part of the organization’s ongoing effort to ...