Hiawatha | The Canadian Encyclopedia
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Hiawatha is an important figure in the precolonial history of the Haudenosaunee most famously for uniting the Five Nations—Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Mohawk—into a political confederacy. 1722, the Tuscarora, a tribe from much farther south, joined the Confederacy forming what we now know a
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- Hiawatha is an important figure in the precolonial history of the Haudenosaunee
- most famously for uniting the Five Nations—Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Mohawk—into a political confederacy.
- 1722, the Tuscarora, a tribe from much farther south, joined the Confederacy
- forming what we now know as the Six Nations.
- Hiawatha takes place in the precolonial context of blood feuds, also known as mourning wars
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