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Iroquois

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Excerpted from the George Washington Book Prize finalist Revolution Song: A

The “Long House,” characteristic lodging of the Iroquois, also described their political union in which each Iroquois nation remained sovereignty under a common roof which sheltered them all.

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Growing up in the Great Lakes region of North America, I developed an early appreciation for the European explorers who had long ago traveled the waterways of my home.

Only Sir William Johnson, living among them in feudal splendor, won and kept the confidence of the Iroquois.

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