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Iroquois History and Legends

10 Dutch Blitz

Iroquois History and Legends

Andrew James Cotter

Canadian History, Iroquois, History, North American History, First Nations, Religion & Spirituality, American History, Education, Six Nations, Native America, Christianity, Native American, Indian History, Colonial History, Haudenosaunee

4.8697 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Henry Hudson sails for the flag of the Netherlands and finds the river that bears his name in 1609. Within a few years Dutch traders arrive to barter and acquire precious furs that are all the rage in Europe.  The Five Nations make sure that they get the upper hand in the markets and begin to play the French and Dutch off each other.

IROQUOIS DIPLOMACY ON THE EARLY AMERICAN FRONTIER BY TIMOTHY J. SHANNON

THE CANADIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA

CHAMPLAIN'S DREAM BY DAVID HACKETT FISCHER



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0:00.0

Hi, welcome to Airquois History and Legends. I'm Caleb.

0:21.0

And I'm Andrew.

0:21.9

And welcome back to episode 10, Dutch Blitz.

0:25.8

Now, before we'd start with the episode, we had some emails this week, didn't we, Andrew?

0:30.0

We had a lot of emails, different people asking things.

0:32.8

We had one listener write in and was asking about clans.

0:42.4

And if every town was just one clan or if the clans were all mixed up in the towns and pretty much i wrote him back and said that it depended larger towns may

0:47.4

have all of the clans of their particular nation in a village but a smaller hamlet it might just be

0:53.8

one clan or it could be a couple

0:55.1

clans.

0:55.7

Yeah, if you have one big longhouse, I mean, that could be a town in itself if it has

0:59.9

100 people in it, and that might just be for one clan.

1:02.9

But like Ganondagon, the one here in Canvegwa, which was one of the bigger villages,

1:07.7

had like over 100 longhouses.

1:09.3

150 to 200 they think so you would have

1:12.0

long houses for every clan in a village and probably several long houses for different clans most

1:18.1

likely um yeah but thanks for writing in and getting the clarity there for that uh we also i got a

1:24.5

a message a while back from uh after school director in roanoke virgin, by the name of Mr. Williams, and he runs an after-school program for inner-city kids, and they've developed the Klan system to help organize their classrooms better for, like, team building.

1:40.5

So they've broken up all these kids into different animal clan systems.

1:45.2

Yes. And you have to look out for everyone that's in the clan you're in. Yeah, they have to,

1:49.5

you know, I guess he said that each clan members, the group is responsible for, you know,

1:54.5

taking care of their desks and being seated down on time and classroom participation. And if one

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