This is a combination of video clips, photos and words about (Grandfather) "Hiawatha"... and his endless efforts to bring peace to the Haudenosaunee Peoples ...and how he helped to found the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy. There are also more vudeos in this channel, for various Haudenosaunee Six Nations Elders, Chiefs and Leaders.



Hiawatha is an important figure in the precolonial history of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of presentday southern Ontario and upper New York (14001450). He is known most famously for uniting the Five Nations of Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Mohawk into a political confederacy. In 1722, the Tuscarora, a tribe from much farther south, joined the Confederacy, forming what we now know as the Six Nations. The story of Hiawatha should not be confused with the popular poem by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha (1885). While Longfellow references Hiawatha, the poem’s focus is actually an Algonquian cultural hero, Nanabozho.



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Many thanks and much respect to: The Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Oneida and Tuscarora Peoples & Nations..; The Haudenosaunee Confederacy..; The Mohawk & Iroquois Peoples..; Peoples Of The Six Nations..; The People of the Longhouse" Westbrook Shortell, Daniel Jackson, Dan Scharfenberger and Nicholas Varga..; TheCanadianEnctclopedia.ca..; Redhawk Native Arts Council..; Jonathan Hawk..; Iroquois Alligator Dance..; Storm Boyz Singers..; All Iroquois Powwow Six Nation Singers.; Joan Shenandoah.. and to all the other brothers and sisters who have saved some great photos & video clips..

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