14 The Canadian Alamo, Well Not Really

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

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🗓️ 2 October 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In 1660 the Iroquois and French meet at the Battle of Long Sault on the Ottawa River. Will the French be able to break the fur blockade and if so at what cost?

THE CANADIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA

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

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Iroquois History and Legends.
0:24.1	I'm Andrew.
0:25.1	And I'm Caleb.
0:26.1	And welcome to episode 14, the Canadian Alamo.
0:29.6	So Caleb, what did we talk about last week?
0:31.9	Well, we talked about how the French and the five nations made peace and buried the hatchet for a short amount of time. Yes.
0:41.3	And the Jesuits ended up coming along with some other traders to the Anadaga main town to help set up a
0:48.3	trading post and a mission. It caused some friction with a few of the other five nation tribes, the Mohawk in particular,
0:57.8	because the Mohawk had a trade monopoly going on and all trade had to go through them in order
1:02.9	to get to the French or Dutch. But now that the Onondaga have made peace with the French,
1:09.8	they're kind of cutting in on a little bit of the Mohawk's trading action.
1:13.5	Yes.
1:14.2	Some things kind of go down and we're not really sure why, but the French did not feel
1:20.6	welcome anymore.
1:21.3	And they skipped town in the middle of the night, packing up everybody on boats that they
1:25.6	had secretly built and headed back to Canada,
1:28.5	leaving the Onondaga scratching their heads as to what was wrong with them.
1:32.6	Which leads us to today.
1:34.8	The short lived peace is over, and we are going to see years more of war.
1:41.5	And so to start things off, to give you an idea, set you up on the map, and if you go to
1:45.9	our website, longhousepodcast.com, we do have maps set up with this time period going on. The
1:51.7	five nations have mostly destroyed or removed peoples from the area of modern Southern
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