Ayonwentah: Hiawatha - Mohawk/Ojibway/Onondaga Leader, Visionary & Peacemaker

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 present-day southern Ontario and upper New York (1400-1450). 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 referen