One leader of this group saw his anti-cannibalism campaigns ignored until he climbed a tree and ordered his detractors to cut it down, plunging him into a river. The pro-British faction of this group, whose original leaders included "the Great Peacemaker," was defeated by John Sullivan and signed the Second Treaty of Fort (*) Stanwix. They overran the Andaste as part of their quest to find new beaver populations; like all of their actions, that was approved by a unanimous vote of fifty sachems. Pressure from Dutch-allied Mohicans and Hurons prompted Dekanawidah and Hiawatha to found it around 1600. For 10 points, name this organization of the Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, Mohawk, and Tus
One leader of this group saw his anti-cannibalism campaigns ignored until he climbed a tree and ordered his detractors to cut it down, plunging him into a river. The pro-British faction of this group, whose original leaders included "the Great Peacemaker," was defeated by John Sullivan and signed the Second Treaty of Fort (*) Stanwix. They overran the Andaste as part of their quest to find new beaver populations; like all of their actions, that was approved by a unanimous vote of fifty sachems. Pressure from Dutch-allied Mohicans and Hurons prompted Dekanawidah and Hiawatha to found it around 1600. For 10 points, name this organization of the Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, Mohawk, and Tuscarora peoples, a confederacy active in the upstate New York region.
One leader of this group saw his anti-cannibalism campaigns ignored until he climbed a tree and ordered his detractors to cut it down, plunging him into a river.
{Iriquois} Confederacy [or {League} of the {Iroquois}; or the {Five Nations}; or the {Six Nations}]