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The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.
Francis Parkman / Historian
Exposed
Iroquois
Towns
Side
Fortified
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
Rachel Blanchard / Actress
British
Indian
Iroquois
Mother
Churchill
Entirely
Sir
Winston
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The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Europe
Forests
Iroquois
Savages
Courts
Despot
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Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.
Francis Parkman / Historian
Construction
House
Iroquois
Leaving
Sides
Two Sides
Wide
Houses
Passage
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In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
Wilma Mankiller / Сhief Of The Cherokee Nation
Women
Future
Society
Generations
Iroquois
Making Decisions
Past
People
Remember
Seven
Decisions
Future Past Remember
Affect
Consider
Encouraged
In The Past
Leaders
Making
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I was born in Mullens, West Virginia, and lived in a community called Iroquois in Appalachia. We faced heavy pollution. Our water came from the Sweeney Watershed, which meant we essentially drank acid mine drainage.
Paula Jean Swearengin /
Acid
Drainage
Drank
Iroquois
Pollution
Virginia
West Virginia
Essentially
Watershed
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My own special knowledge is about the Abenaki people and, to some degree, my Iroquois neighbors. But whenever I write anything about another tribal nation, I always get a lot of help. Not just from books, but from people who belong to that tribal nation.
Joseph Bruchac / Writer
Iroquois
Belong
Neighbors
Tribal
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I tell the story of eight forgotten founders, people like Canassatego, an Iroquois Indian Chief, who taught Benjamin Franklin about federalism, about the idea that you can form a confederacy in which the central power has only limited powers and local control is retained.
Mike Lee / United States Senator
Eight
Federalism
Forgotten
Founders
Indian
Iroquois
Taught
Power People Control
Idea
Central
Chief
Confederacy
Power Control People
Local
Powers
Story
Tell
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As early as 1681-82, a group of Abenakis had accompanied the French explorer La Salle on his historic voyage down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. By 1700, many Abenaki and Iroquois Indians spoke French and had some European education, and some were literate in French and Latin.
Adrienne Mayor / Historian
Historic
Iroquois
Mexico
Mississippi
Accompanied
Gulf
Indians
La
Literate
Voyage
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