This resulted in the Beaver Wars, to which we also dedicated an article. In any case, that system was a unique form of assembly-based democracy that served as a reference for the declaration of war ...

The Beaver Wars began in 1609 when French explorer Samuel de Champlain and his men attacked the Iroquois tribes living along the St. Lawrence River in alliance with the Innu (Montagnais), the ...

Following the beaver wars of the 17th century, Iroquois society took possession of all Susquehannock land, and what we now know as Pennsylvania. By 1,700, much of this territory remained uninhabited.

The Iroquois are hindering the trading of beaver skin, ... "During the first war, the French did not even dare go out and piss, we had frightened them so." In early May 1660, ...

John Orzel, historian and attorney, will speak to the Summit Old Guard at its Tuesday, May 16 meeting about "The Winter of Tears: The 1779 Sullivan/Clinton Expedition against the Iroquois ...