History

The Cayuga were one of the first five nations to join the iroquois confederacy and accepted the peacemaker's message in 1570. The Iroquois were raided many times, and in 1603, when Champlain arrived, he was greeted by cheering Algonquians celebrating a successful raid on the weakened Iroquois population. One of Champlain's biggest mistakes led to creating a huron war party against the Iroquois. That created tensions between the french and the iroquois till 1701. Around 1620, the dutch gave the Iroquois firearms and protected them with them, making the iroquois became more militant. During this time, the Iroquois were victorious in many wars. In 1648, the Iroquois were given guns to directly by the dutch. The Iroquois then sent 1000 troops to the forest in the centre of the huron territory and launched a devastating attack on the huron, taking out several major villages, among the ones killed were three Jesuit missionaries which were considered martyrs to the Roman catholics. They then attacked the Neutral nation in 1650 and by the end of 1651, the Neutral nation was destroyed. many people were killed. In 1654, the Erie nation was attacked and was destroyed They also conquered the land of the Susqehannock but lost that land in 1722, when the english took the land The tuscarora joined the iroquois in 1721.

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