[McGruff]

The whole state is native American territory.

And they all hated each if I remember my American history class from the 1960s.

[Buckeye McFrog]

There is a town called Onondaga in Michigan.
Many miles from where they would have lived.

[printhead]

I was in grade school in the 60’s. I grew up in Elmira/Horseheads. We learned the nearest counties, Chemung and Tioga were named after those tribes. And further west were Chatauqua and Cattaraugus.

[Vermont Lt]

So far as I remember my teaching from college, the whites were pretty much a “calming influence” on the region.

[MayflowerMadam]

You studied that in American History? Neat. I was raised in N.Y. state and IIRC all of 7th grade was New York history. It was so interesting — especially the indian tribes and nations.

If Ithaca residents have unhappy spirits under their feet, it explains a lot. My formerly-conservative cousin settled there and he’s gone over to the dark side. Family reunions are interesting.

[Vigilanteman]

That's a reasonably accurate map. An old Sioux legend declares that a remnant of our people escaped from a great battle in that area circa 400 a.d. in which tens of thousands were slaughtered and moved to the Ohio Valley and from there, over the next millennium or so, to the present Siouxian lands (most of Minnesota, Iowa, the Dakotas and parts of Nebraska, Montana and Wyoming).

Our cousins the Mandan buried their dead facing toward the Ohio Valley for this reason. Legend is that Minnesota was chosen because it was a land of many waters like this great battleground in western and central New York.

[Lurker]

There are very good reasons for the Mohawks no longer being around.

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[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You don't.

They were allies.

That is why they were called The Iroquois Confederacy.