Why Are Hiawatha and Deganawidah Significant to Iroquois Culture

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Multiple Choice

Why are Hiawatha and Deganawidah significant to Iroquois culture?

• A) They are men from Iroquois oral history who united five separate tribes in the Iroquois Confederation.
• B) They were brothers who united the Iroquois around 1500.
• C) They were faith healers who, through prayer, saved the Iroquois from the ravages of small pox.
• D) They were Iroquois holy men who argued that the Iroquois nation could only be great if it eliminated all non-Iroquois.
• E) As the gods of the sun and the forest, they were the most important of the Iroquois gods.

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