Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0236Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a number of Native American men gathered around teepee, many are laying on the ground while others are standing, all are either holding bows, rifles, or smoking pipes. Above the image "T208 (Star)" is printed, below the image "V23180T Among the Iroquois Indians, Provicne of Quebec, Canada." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood, Inc. Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
V23180
AMONG THE IROQUOIS INDIANS, PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, CANADA
There were two main stocks of Indians that figured in the early history of Canada, the Algonquins and the Iroquois. The Algonquins occupied the whole region of the valley of the St. Lawrenece and the Great Lakes in Canada, with the exception of certain parts around Georgian Bay that were occupied by the Hurons, a branch of the Iroquois. The Algonquins were not so advanced as the Iroquois. They lived almost entirely by hunting and fishing, but they won the Fench over to their side early in the hsitory of Indian warfare.
The Iroquois, whose descendants we here look upon, were the terrors of the woods, not only to the Algonquins and Hurons but to all the tribes that were near them in the Untied States. They were a still greater terror to the French. In their permanent villages they lived in better houses than the Algonquins and tilled the land more extensively, so that they had fields of corn with yellow pumpkins shining through, much as we have them in the fields at the presnet time.
The Iroquois were fierce warriors. They hung around the settlements of the Fench and pounced as stealthily as a cat upon any person who happened to stray far away from the open field. They carried out extensive war expeditions, sometimes marching overland hundred of miles. In time they utterly destoryed tribe after tribe, inlcuding the whole Huron tirbe, though they were blood relations. Finally they marched west, looking for more tribes to conquer. They met fierce fighters of the plains, the Sioux, who worsted them and sent them home defeated.
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