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Name: Beaver Wars

Type: Event

Start: 1639 AD

End: 1712 AD

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Were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America throughout the Saint Lawrence River valley in Canada and the lower Great Lakes region which pitted the Iroquois League against the Hurons, northern Algonquians and their French allies.

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  • January 1673: Iroquois expansion in the Susquehannas territories.
  • January 1650: The Iroquois defeated and assimilated the Huron.
  • January 1652: The Iroquois defeated and assimilated the Neutral Nation.
  • January 1657: The Iroquois defeated and assimilated the Erie Tribe.
  • January 1671: Iroquois expansion in the Susquehannas territories.
  • January 1678: In 1677, the Iroquois adopted the majority of the Iroquoian-speaking Susquehannock into their nation.
  • January 1701: Iroquois expansion until 1700.
  • January 1712: Iroquois expansion until 1711.
  • January 1681: Iroquois attack in Illinois.
  • January 1680: Iroquois expansion until 1679.
  • January 1639: The Iroquois attacked the Wenro people.

  • Selected Sources


  • 5 Nations Expansion. Wikipedia. Retrieved on 30 March 2024 on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:5NationsExpansion.jpg
  • Huron Indians. Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved on 31 March 2024 on https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07565a.htm
  • Jennings, F. (1968). Glory, Death, and Transfiguration: The Susquehannock Indians in the Seventeenth Century. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 112(1), 15–53. http://www.jstor.org/stable/986100
  • Rayback, R.J. (1957): Atlas of New York State, Frank E. Richards, p. 12
  • Reville, F. D. (1920): The History of the County of Brant, Hurley Printing Company, p. 20
  • Steele, I. K. (1994): Warpaths: Invasions of North America, Oxford University Press, p. 64
  • Wallace, P. A. W. (2007): Indians in Pennsylvania (2nd ed.), Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, p. 100
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