Dekanawidah first crossed Lake Ontario in a stone canoe ... After convincing all five Iroquois nations to form a political union, Dekanawidah bound them all into the confederacy with a symbolic ...
The Iroquois defeated the Petun and Ottawa nations in 1652 ... said much later: "During the first war, the French did not even dare go out and piss, we had frightened them so." ...
This Indigenous Peoples Day, our Alek LaShomb visited the Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center to learn what artifacts say ...