Hello and welcome to Iroquois History and Legends. I'm Andrew. And I'm Caleb. And some of you might be

wondering, what is this podcast? What is it all about? And most importantly, who are the

Iroquois? Now, the Ariquois are the most influential and powerful group of Native American nations in the Northeast.

These are the peoples that dealt hand in hand with the colonies as they slowly started to pop up.

Andrew and I have noticed throughout our public school education that the history of the natives,

especially in dealings with the colonial Americans,

is not being told. You kind of get this lesson where it starts with Columbus, and you talk about

natives for five minutes, and then you're on to George Washington, with hundreds of years left out.

Now, the problem with that is when you're just getting the bullet points on the white man

robbing land or the noble Indians coming through and massacring a town, you really aren't learning

what caused the tension between these peoples. And that's why Andrew and I created this podcast.

We are going to dive in deep and try to find out the reasons

and the cultural clash. Throughout the history that we're told, we see that there's evil people

on this side and evil people on that. What we have found is that the majority of people, both

natives and colonists, were actually just people. People that were just trying to get by in a crazy,

messed up world. Our show is going to cover several different aspects. Our first episode is going

to talk about the great peacemaker and how he came through and united the five nations.

Then we're going to do a several part series where we're going to talk about everything

from society,

government, agriculture, hunting, and fishing, so you can really kind of understand what it was

like for the day-to-day lives for the people here before the colonists came.

Then we'll also be covering a narrative, and we're going to be going all the way from prehistory,

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