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AKWESASNE, NY-The Aboriginal homeland of the Six Nations Iroquois (the Haudenosaunee) stretched from Lake Champlain and the Hudson River in the east, the Niagara River-Lake Erie in the west, Delaware River and the central Pennsylvania mountains to the south and the St. Lawrence River to the north. Included in this region are not only large sections of New York but parts of Ontario, Quebec, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Within this area dwelt many tens of thousands of Iroquois along...
So you want to honor our Native people by keeping the Washington Redskins? Answer these ten simple questions first. 1. The Washington DC area is the homeland of which native nations? 2. Which of the four major sports were invented by Native people? 3. Which football teams played the first game in which the forward pass was legal? 4. Who was the quarterback that invented the spiral pass? 5. Who was the first president of the National Football League? 6. Which pro football player also played professional baseball, was a...
1. The Pamunkey and Piscataway nations: both of which have thriving cultures and communities in the US capital region. 2. Ice hockey, a winter form of the Native game lacrosse invented by the Iroquois and basketball taken from the Mayans of Central America. 3. Villanova versus the Carlisle Indian School, September 26, 1906. 4. Hawley Pierce, Seneca Nation, Carlisle Indian School, 1902. 5. Jim Thorpe, Sac and Fox Nation, voted president on August 20, 1920. 6. Jim Thorpe; he played baseball for the New York Giants, Cincinatti...
