Indigenous Peoples of New York

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Across
  1. 1. Virginian tribe adopted by the Cayuga in 1753.
  2. 4. People of the great tidal river.
  3. 5. John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt is a noted linguist and ethnographer who wrote the dictionary for this Iroquoian language.
  4. 6. This Niagara River nation was defeated during the Beaver Wars.
  5. 9. This nation's totem is of the "enchanted wolf."
  6. 10. Not the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace, but the other one.Three words.
  7. 12. Uncas was a sachem of this Algonquin tribe.
  8. 13. Original name for the Delaware tribe. Two words.
Down
  1. 2. One of the five constituent nations of the Haudenosaunee and keepers of the fire.
  2. 3. This nation has an active land dispute with NYS involving the thruway.
  3. 4. Recognition efforts for this tribe in NYS are underway.
  4. 7. People of the standing stone; ancient beliefs say their shapeshifting abilities saved them from their enemies.
  5. 8. Indigenous confederacy also known as people of the longhouse.
  6. 11. Native tribe and iconic hairstyle.
  7. 14. A Great Lake and NYS county are named after this tribe.