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46 Confederacy o f 6, Otawa Confederacy o f 3, D akota League123 o f <strong>the</strong> | “ SevenCouncil F ires” , d. M oqui Confederacy in N ew M exico o f 7 Pueblos, <strong>the</strong> A%tecConfederacy o f 3 tribes in <strong>the</strong> Valley o f M exico. A m leichtesten B ildg v.confederacy (generally difficult w egen den “ unstable geographical relations”für d. Village Indians im M iddle Status o f Barbarism) w egen der nearnessihrer pueblos zu einander u. d. smallness ihrer areas. D ie berühmtestenConfederacies in N ortham erica die der A ztecs, u. die der Iroquois;letztere genau bekannt; erstere hatte whsclich denselben Charakter o fsystematic confederacy, aber in d. historischen (span.) Berichten erscheint siemehr od. minder als blosse league o f 3 kindred tribes, <strong>of</strong>fensive and defensive.The Confederacy had <strong>the</strong> gentes fo r its basis and centre u. stock language (w ovon d.dialects s till mutually intelligible') and stock language fo r its circumference; nonefound beyond <strong>the</strong> bounds o f <strong>the</strong> dialects o f a com m on language - o<strong>the</strong>rwise heterogeneous elements w ould have been forced into <strong>the</strong> organisation.Ausnahmsweis w o h l einmal die remains o f a tribe not cognate inspeech admitted into an existing confederacy, w ie z.B. die N a t c h e after <strong>the</strong>iroverthrow b y <strong>the</strong> French, into <strong>the</strong> Creek Confederacy. There was nopossible way o f becoming connected on equal terms with a confederacy ausser dchmembership in a gens and tribe, and a common speech.Monarchy incompatible with gentilism. T h e Grecian tyrannies w ere despotismsfounded upon usurpation - <strong>the</strong> germ out o f w hich <strong>the</strong> later kingdom s arose;<strong>the</strong> socalled kingdoms o f <strong>the</strong> homeric age w ere military democracies, and nothingmore. D ie Iroquois ursprünglich emigrants from beyond <strong>the</strong> M ississippi,124w hclich a branch des D akota stock; erst nach valley d. S t. Lawrence,settled near Montreal. D ch d. hostility d. surrounding tribes gezw ungen,sie nach d. central region o f N ew Y o rk . M it canoes coasting d. östlicheGestade des See Ontario (<strong>the</strong>ir numbers sm all).125 Ihre erste Niederlassungan Mündung des Oswego river, w o sie nach ihren traditions lang blieben;waren damals wenigstens 3 distinct tribes, /) Mohawks, 2) Onondagas u.3) Senecas. E in tribe settled nachher at <strong>the</strong> head o f <strong>the</strong> Canandaigua lake, 126became <strong>the</strong> Seneca; andrer occupied <strong>the</strong> Onondaga127 valley, w den dieOnondagas; dritter passed östlich, settled erst at Oneida, bei site o f Utica,rem oved <strong>the</strong>n to Mohawk Valley, became <strong>the</strong> Mohawks. D ie die blieben,w den die 4) Oneidas. E in Theil der Senecas oder der O nondagas settledentlang dem eastern shore des Cayuga lake, w den d. Cayugas. V o r Besetzngdch d. Iroquois, scheint New York Theil der area der A lgon[kin\128tribes gewesen zu sein128; nach ihren traditions entsetzten d. Iroquois d.alten B ew ohner w ie sie gradually ihre N iederlassungen ausdehnten,östlich vo m Hudson, u. w estlich vo m Genesee.[A lso bis dato 5 tribes: 1) Seneca 2) Cayuga, 3) Ononondaga, 4) Oneidas5) Mobawk)\N ach ihrer tradition lange Z eit nach ihrer N iederlassung in N e w Y o rk ,w hd der sie com m on cause against <strong>the</strong>ir enemies machten, aber ehe sieConfederacy bildeten. Residirten in villages, gew öhnlich um geben m it164

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