iroquoians in A Sentence

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    Iroquoians had historically been migratory cultivators, and supplemented their diet with additional hunting and gathering activities.

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    Many Iroquoians worked in the fur trade, and travelled on fur ships and cross country expeditions into the wild interior of western Canada.

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    When soil fertility in a certain area declined, the Iroquoians would often simply pack up the belongings from their villages and move elsewhere.

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    Captives in tribal wars were often adopted and assimilated, and in this way the Iroquoians steadied the depletion of their own numbers from wars, and caused decreases in the ranks of their rivals.

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    Since during the American Revolutionary War the Iroquoians had remained in league with the British, they had to face hostility from the newly formed United States, and many Iroquoians moved north from New York to British Canada.

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    Chiefs who were perceived to be performing unsatisfactorily could be demoted by women, a process known as'knocking of the horns', referring to knocking of the antler horns from chief's head, which Iroquoians bestowed upon people of leadership.

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