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An 11 page overview of this critical time in history. The author details the motivations that prompted the various Iroquois alliances that arose. Bibliography lists six sources.
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The Iroquois stand distinct in many ways from Native Americans as a whole.
Prior to contact with the Europeans who invaded their lands, most Native American tribes had only loose intertribal alliances. Formed in order to assure survival, these alliances were
far removed from the military alliances they faced in their European foes. The Iroquois, in contrast, had a long history of internal alliance at the time of the European
invasion. Their ultimate alliance with the English, however, in their fight against New France was an alliance formed out of desperation. The Iroquois were in a desperate situation
and they took desperate measures to try and deal with that situation. The European colonization of the so-called New World was actually an
invasion of a world already well occupied and well utilized by the indigenous peoples of that world. The Iroquois were one of those peoples. The Iroquois found themselves
in a situation where they had to fight this invasion if they and their world were to survive. They knew that to wage the most effective fight they had
to ally themselves with one or more of what in actuality was the enemy. Interestingly, at first the Iroquois varied back and forth in their alliances. Much of
that initial variation is attributable to the Iroquois desire for trade goods and the competing factors they encountered in satisfying that desire. Their varied alliances, however, were also evidence
of their desperate struggle to retain control of their lands and their lifeways. Trade between the indigenous peoples of Canada and the white
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