Typically, a raid on an isolated farm …
Years: 1648 - 1659
Typically, a raid on an isolated farm or settlement consists of a war party moving swiftly and silently through the woods, swooping down suddenly, wielding tomahawk and scalping knife to slaughter the inhabitants.
Prisoners in some cases are carried back to the Iroquois homelands.
Such prisoners, in the case of women and children, are sometimes incorporated into the tribe, whereas male prisoners are often subjected to a slow death by torture.
Groups
- Iroquois (Haudenosaunee, also known as the League of Peace and Power, Five Nations, or Six Nations)
- Algonquin, or Algonkin, people (Amerind tribe)
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Mohawk people (Amerind tribe)
- Wyandot, or Wendat, or Huron people (Amerind tribe)
- Cayuga people(Amerind tribe)
- Onondaga people (Amerind tribe)
- Oneida people (Amerind tribe)
- Erie; also Erielhonan, Eriez, Nation du Chat (Amerind tribe)
- Neutral Nation, or Attawandaron
- Seneca (Amerind tribe)
- New France (French Colony)
- Jesuits, or Order of the Society of Jesus
- Shawnees, or Shawanos (Amerind tribe)
- France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of
Topics
- North American Fur Trade
- Indian Trade
- Colonization of the Americas, French
- Beaver Wars, or French and Iroquois Wars
- Colonization of the Americas, Dutch
- Iroquois-Huron War
