Unit 1 Review
Intro
Native Americans
Onondaga
Navajo
Modoc
Iroquois
Central NY
Part of
Iroquois
Confederation
Arizona, Utah,
New Mexico
Largest Native
American
Nation in US
Oregon, N
California
Villages
individual,
banded
together in
times of war
NE United
States
Formed
Iroquois
Confederation
The Earth on Turtle’s Back
Onondaga
When Grizzlies Walked Upright
Modoc
Iroquois Constitution
Iroquois
The Navajo Origin Legend
Origin Myths
Navajo
Iroquois Constitution
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Dekandawidah proposed a constitution to the 5 Iroquois nations.
Made ritual for when candidate lord was installed.
Said the leaders should be thick skinned – not easily offended.
Said not to ignore warnings of others.
The Earth on Turtle’s Back
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Skyland chief’s wife expecting.
Dream depicted removal of Great Tree- husband followed dream
Wife fell through hole left by tree with seeds in hand
Caught by swans; other marine animals determined she needed
land.
• Duck, Beaver, Loon, Muskrat tried to dive and get ground from
ocean floor.
• Only Muskrat succeeded; placed dirt on turtle’s back which became
whole world. Woman planted seeds which grew into grass and trees.
When Grizzlies Walked Upright
• Carved hole in sky and pushed all snow and ice below til was Mount
Shasta.
• Walked down mountain – from footsteps rivers formed. Where
finger touched grew a tree.
• Broke giant stuck – longer became beaver and otter, smaller were
fish. Largest were bears – walked upright.
• Brought family to earth, daughter disobeyed him and poked head
out of smoke hole – wind dragged her away. Grizzlies found her and
raised her. She had a family with the grizzlies who became Indians.
• Chief of Sky Spirits outraged- made bears walk on all fours.
Navajo Origin Legend
• 12th day : dried selves with cornmeal. Blue & Black Body carried
bucksin. White Body carried white and yellow corn.
• Bucksin head to west : on top, corn with tips to east Beneath, eagle
feather of corresponding color. Another bucksin on top with head to
east. White wind blew from east, yellow from west, through the
skins.
• When buckskin lifted, corn was gone and a man and woman were
there instead. White into man. Yellow into woman. Fingerprints are
from the wind blowing through buckskins.
Christopher Columbus
• Sailed in 1492
• Wanted Queen Isabella to Finance Voyage
• Landed on the Bahamas – Mistaken for India
▫ Named the island San Salvador
• Wrote to try and impress the Queen to keep her funding
John Smith
• Egotist
• Lead first successful colony in North America
▫ Jamestown
▫ President for One Year
• Embellished his stories to make himself look good
• Befriended Pocahontas
▫ Life saved by her when Indians tried executing him
▫ Treated Indians Harshly
• The General History of Virginia
William Bradford
• Helped to found Massachussetts Bay Colony
▫ Re-elected as governor 30 times
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Signed peace treaty with the Indians
Of Plymouth Plantation
More humble and realistic
Faced many hardships
▫ Disease, starvation, etc.
Olaudah Equiano
• Prince in Benin
• Sold into Slavery
• 11 when enslaved
▫ Wasn’t shackled
• Became ill so kept on deck
• Later bought his freedom
• Ship crowded and unsanitary
Bradstreet
• Woman who wrote about her husband
▫ Expressed great love for her husband
▫ Frowned upon because it wasn’t about god
• Angered the people
• Lived in Massachusetts Bay Colony
▫ Puritan
Taylor
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Westfield Massachussetts
Harvard College
Minister
Physician
Regarded as one of best colonial poets
Huswifery
▫ Praised god
Edwards
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Brilliant
Puritan Preacher
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Became leader of Great Awakening
▫ Religious revival
• Made 6 Hour Sermon
▫ Struck fear into people