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97-536: NLL: International Box: International Field: MLL: NCAA: Lyle Thompson (born September 9, 1992) is a Haudenosaunee professional lacrosse player from the Hawk Clan of the Onondaga Nation . His native name is Deyhahsanoondey , which translates into He's Flying Over Us . He plays both indoor and outdoor professional lacrosse. In professional outdoor lacrosse, he plays at the attack position for
194-805: A patriarchal society, was the matrilineal kinship system of Iroquois society and the related power of women. The Canadian historian D. Peter MacLeod wrote about the Canadian Iroquois and the French in the time of the Seven Years' War: Most critically, the importance of clan mothers, who possessed considerable economic and political power within Canadian Iroquois communities, was blithely overlooked by patriarchal European scribes. Those references that do exist, show clan mothers meeting in council with their male counterparts to take decisions regarding war and peace and joining in delegations to confront
291-708: A Mohawk war party by the shores of what is now called Lake Champlain, and again in June 1610, Champlain fought against the Mohawks. The Iroquois became well known in the southern colonies in the 17th century by this time. After the first English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia (1607), numerous 17th-century accounts describe a powerful people known to the Powhatan Confederacy as the Massawomeck , and to
388-463: A No. 1 recruit this decade". Initially, he started at midfield in his freshman season in 2012, scoring 22 goals and 16 assists along with 32 face-off draws. That was his last collegiate season scoring less than 100 points. Moving to attack in his sophomore year, Thompson had 113 points. In this season, Albany defeated Syracuse for the first time. Miles Thompson scored the winning goal in double overtime. In 2014, Lyle, along with his brother Miles were
485-807: A derogatory name adopted from the traditional enemies of the Haudenosaunee. A less common, older autonym for the confederation is Ongweh’onweh , meaning "original people". Haudenosaunee derives from two phonetically similar but etymologically distinct words in the Seneca language : Hodínöhšö:ni:h , meaning "those of the extended house", and Hodínöhsö:ni:h , meaning "house builders". The name "Haudenosaunee" first appears in English in Lewis Henry Morgan 's work (1851), where he writes it as Ho-dé-no-sau-nee . The spelling "Hotinnonsionni"
582-680: A distinct language, territory, and function in the League. The League is composed of a Grand Council, an assembly of fifty chiefs or sachems , each representing a clan of a nation. When Europeans first arrived in North America, the Haudenosaunee ( Iroquois League to the French, Five Nations to the British) were based in what is now central and west New York State including the Finger Lakes region, occupying large areas north to
679-561: A professional indoor lacrosse player, Lyle has won the 2017 NLL MVP award , championship and championship MVP . He was first-team all-pro in 2019. As a professional outdoor lacrosse player, he was named the 2022 PLL Attackman of the Year . As an international player, he won the 2015 and 2019 world box lacrosse medals being named first-team all world honors in 2015, and won the 2014, 2018 and 2023 bronze world field lacrosse medals, being named first-team all-world honors in 2014. Lyle Thompson
776-851: A result of the Beaver Wars, they pushed Siouan -speaking tribes out and reserved the territory as a hunting ground by right of conquest . They finally sold to British colonists their remaining claim to the lands south of the Ohio in 1768 at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix . Historian Pekka Hämäläinen writes of the League, "There had never been anything like the Five Nations League in North America. No other Indigenous nation or confederacy had ever reached so far, conducted such an ambitious foreign policy, or commanded such fear and respect. The Five Nations blended diplomacy, intimidation, and violence as
873-540: A role model for Lyle. Also, the Thompson brothers have an extensive lacrosse heritage, as their father played lacrosse and their grandfather played lacrosse. Their father, Jerome Thompson Sr. played men's Senior B lacrosse until he was 37, playing on the Akwesasne Thunder Sr. B squad, winning the 1995 and 1997 President's Cups, Canada's national second-division box lacrosse championships. He also played with
970-406: A total of five years of high lacrosse, as he was on Salmon River's high school varsity team as an eighth grader. Paul Rabil stated that Lyle was "the #1 High School recruit in the country...as a sophomore". Lyle Thompson played for Salmon River High School during his eighth grade year. He scored 50 points that season before he injured his collarbone, shortening his season. After the injury, one arm
1067-618: Is a politically independent entity, as the nation is federally recognized by the United States government. The Onondaga Nation has reached some accommodations with New York State on jurisdictional issues. According to the United States Census Bureau , the Indian reservation has a total area of 9.3 mi (24.1 km ). 9.2 mi (24.0 km ) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km ) of it (0.54%)
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#17327730315791164-480: Is also attested from later in the nineteenth century. An alternative designation, Ganonsyoni , is occasionally encountered as well, from the Mohawk kanǫhsyǫ́·ni "the extended house", or from a cognate expression in a related Iroquoian language; in earlier sources it is variously spelled "Kanosoni", "akwanoschioni", "Aquanuschioni", "Cannassoone", "Canossoone", "Ke-nunctioni", or "Konossioni". More transparently,
1261-403: Is attested in any Indian language as a name for any Iroquoian group, and the ultimate origin and meaning of the name are unknown." Jesuit priest and missionary Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix wrote in 1744: The name Iroquois is purely French, and is formed from the [Iroquoian-language] term Hiro or Hero , which means I have said —with which these Indians close all their addresses, as
1358-547: Is from the Mohawk Nation . In accordance with Haudenosaunee tradition, he and his brothers were each given a wooden stick as a newborn. He began playing lacrosse from a very early age as lacrosse carries spiritual and cultural significance with the Onondaga nation . Growing up, he and his brothers would spend much of their time playing lacrosse in the backyard, often with their father coaching them for hours. In 1999,
1455-470: Is in Samuel de Champlain 's account of his journey to Tadoussac in 1603. Other early French spellings include "Erocoise", "Hiroquois", "Hyroquoise", "Irecoies", "Iriquois", "Iroquaes", "Irroquois", and "Yroquois", pronounced at the time as [irokwe] or [irokwɛ]. Competing theories have been proposed for this term's origin, but none have gained widespread acceptance. By 1978 Ives Goddard wrote: "No such form
1552-484: Is water. New York State Route 11A is a north-south highway in the reservation. The reservation is bordered by the Town of Onondaga and the Town of LaFayette . At the 2000 census there were 1,473 people, 304 households, and 292 families residing in the Indian reservation. The population density was 159.2/mi (61.5/km ). There were 311 housing units at an average density of 33.6/mi (13.0/km ). The racial makeup of
1649-417: Is widely regarded as one of the greatest lacrosse players of all time, and the greatest lacrosse player of his generation. He is renowned for his extraordinary stick skills, offensive prowess, execution and keen playmaking ability. The USA men's lacrosse team head coach, John Danowski , stated of Lyle Thompson that "he transcends the sport". Lyle pioneered backhand play, especially in shooting, also known as
1746-796: The #everychildmatters movement and spreading awareness about the atrocities of the residential schools that were designed to indoctrinate Indigenous children into Christian Canadian culture . Lyle grew up on the Native American reservation, Onondaga Nation, NY . He is the second youngest of the five children of Jerome "Ji" Thompson Sr., a Mohawk father from Akwesasne and third generation ironworker with 'Ironworkers Local 60', and his wife, Doloris Thompson, an Onondaga mother. His three older brothers Jeremy Thompson , Jerome (“Hiana”) Thompson and Miles Thompson are also professional lacrosse players, along with his cousin Ty Thompson, who
1843-765: The Cannons Lacrosse Club of the Premier Lacrosse League . In professional indoor lacrosse, he plays at the forward position for the Georgia Swarm of the National Lacrosse League . He also competes internationally in both indoor lacrosse for Haudenosaunee men's national indoor lacrosse team , and outdoor lacrosse for the Haudenosaunee men's national outdoor lacrosse team . He played lacrosse in college at
1940-552: The Neutral Nation (1651), Erie Tribe (1657), and Susquehannock (1680). The traditional view is that these wars were a way to control the lucrative fur trade to purchase European goods on which they had become dependent. Starna questions this view. Recent scholarship has elaborated on this view, arguing that the Beaver Wars were an escalation of the Iroquoian tradition of "Mourning Wars". This view suggests that
2037-746: The Ohio Valley . From east to west, the League was composed of the Mohawk , Oneida , Onondaga , Cayuga , and Seneca nations . In about 1722, the Iroquoian -speaking Tuscarora joined the League, having migrated northwards from the Carolinas after a bloody conflict with white settlers. A shared cultural background with the Five Nations of the Iroquois (and a sponsorship from the Oneida) led
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#17327730315792134-713: The Onontio [the Iroquois term for the French governor-general] and the French leadership in Montreal, but only hint at the real influence wielded by these women. Eighteenth-century English historiography focuses on the diplomatic relations with the Iroquois, supplemented by such images as John Verelst 's Four Mohawk Kings , and publications such as the Anglo-Iroquoian treaty proceedings printed by Benjamin Franklin . A persistent 19th and 20th century narrative casts
2231-735: The Petun , Erie, and Susquehannock. Trying to control access to game for the lucrative fur trade, they invaded the Algonquian peoples of the Atlantic coast (the Lenape , or Delaware ), the Anishinaabe of the boreal Canadian Shield region, and not infrequently the English colonies as well. During the Beaver Wars, they were said to have defeated and assimilated the Huron (1649), Petun (1650),
2328-596: The University at Albany , majoring in sociology , although he initially pursued an art major as he has a passion for drawing . Inside Lacrosse ranked him as the #1 recruit for the 2011-12 high school graduating class. Lyle committed to play for the Albany Great Danes men's lacrosse team under head coach, Scott Marr. Typically, Indigenous American lacrosse recruits would play for Syracuse University . The Thompsons choosing UAlbany over Syracuse University
2425-486: The University at Albany . In his junior year he shared the 2014 men's Tewaaraton Award with his older brother Miles . In the same year, that attack line consisting of those two and their cousin, Ty Thompson, dubbed the Thompson Trio , shattered multiple NCAA Division 1 records, and is widely considered one of the greatest attack lines in college lacrosse history. In his senior year, he won the award again alone. As
2522-465: The corn/beans/squash agricultural complex enabled them to support a large population. They made war primarily against neighboring Algonquian peoples . Muir uses archaeological data to argue that the Iroquois expansion onto Algonquian lands was checked by the Algonquian adoption of agriculture. This enabled them to support their own populations large enough to resist Iroquois conquest. The People of
2619-657: The non-profit philanthropic organization, the 4 The Future Foundation , which aims to help Indigenous and underserved kids grow and thrive. Iroquois#People The Iroquois ( / ˈ ɪr ə k w ɔɪ , - k w ɑː / IRR -ə-kwoy, -kwah ), also known as the Five Nations , and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee ( / ˌ h oʊ d ɪ n oʊ ˈ ʃ oʊ n i / HOH -din-oh- SHOH -nee ; lit. ' people who are building
2716-416: The 1990 Iroquois Nationals international lacrosse team. Early in grade school, Lyle would often get into physical altercations with anti-Indigenous students, whom were ignorant of Indigenous people and culture, especially his traditional hair braid. Lyle Thompson's high school lacrosse career spanned two different teams, Salmon River High School lacrosse team and LaFayette High School lacrose team. He played
2813-537: The 19th century. The historiography of the Iroquois peoples is a topic of much debate, especially regarding the American colonial period. French Jesuit accounts of the Iroquois portrayed them as savages lacking government, law, letters, and religion. But the Jesuits made considerable effort to study their languages and cultures, and some came to respect them. A source of confusion for European sources, coming from
2910-442: The 2024 season. Lyle Thompson played at the forward position for the Haudenosaunee men's national lacrosse team (then under the name Iroquois) at the 2015 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship . The team won the silver medal, falling to Canada (12-8) in the championship finals game . Lyle was award first-team all world honors . Lyle Thompson played at the forward position for the Haudenosaunee men's national lacrosse team (then under
3007-480: The Algonquian names for their Iroquois competitors. The Iroquois Confederacy is believed to have been founded by the Great Peacemaker at an unknown date estimated between 1450 and 1660, bringing together five distinct nations in the southern Great Lakes area into "The Great League of Peace". Other research, however, suggests the founding occurred in 1142. Each nation within this Iroquoian confederacy had
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3104-624: The Allegheny mountains into present-day Virginia and Kentucky and into the Ohio Valley . The St. Lawrence Iroquoians , Wendat (Huron), Erie , and Susquehannock , all independent peoples known to the European colonists, also spoke Iroquoian languages . They are considered Iroquoian in a larger cultural sense, all being descended from the Proto-Iroquoian people and language. Historically, however, they were competitors and enemies of
3201-796: The Atlantic Ocean; from the St. Lawrence River to the Chesapeake Bay . Michael O. Varhola has argued their success in conquering and subduing surrounding nations had paradoxically weakened a Native response to European growth, thereby becoming victims of their own success. The Five Nations of the League established a trading relationship with the Dutch at Fort Orange (modern Albany, New York), trading furs for European goods, an economic relationship that profoundly changed their way of life and led to much over-hunting of beavers. Between 1665 and 1670,
3298-583: The Class C State Final against Manhasset . He had a breakout performance in the state title game that year, scoring five goals. In his junior year, he totaled 111 points. This was second-most in Section 3. He was awarded first-team All-CNY honors for the second time. For his senior year of high school, Lyle re-transferred back to Salmon River High School. There, he scored 66 goals and 54 assists and received All-American honors. Lyle Thompson attended college at
3395-685: The Confederacy dispute this historical interpretation, regarding the League of the Great Peace as the foundation of their heritage. The Iroquois may be the Kwedech described in the oral legends of the Mi'kmaq nation of Eastern Canada. These legends relate that the Mi'kmaq in the late pre-contact period had gradually driven their enemies – the Kwedech – westward across New Brunswick , and finally out of
3492-712: The Florida Launch to the Chesapeake Bayhawks . In 2018 Lyle appeared in 6 games for the Bayhawks netting 20 goals, 1-2pt goal, 8 assists, and 17 ground balls. Lyle Thompson is an attackman for Cannons Lacrosse Club of the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) . He was not initially signed to PLL when it started in 2019 because he had signed a long-term contract with the MLL in 2017 until the two leagues merged in 2020. The PLL president, Paul Rabil , stated "For me,
3589-542: The French as the Antouhonoron . They were said to come from the north, beyond the Susquehannock territory. Historians have often identified the Massawomeck / Antouhonoron as the Haudenosaunee. In 1649, an Iroquois war party, consisting mostly of Senecas and Mohawks, destroyed the Huron village of Wendake . In turn, this ultimately resulted in the breakup of the Huron nation. With no northern enemy remaining,
3686-604: The Grand Council, which still exists. The Iroquois Confederacy was the decentralized political and diplomatic entity that emerged in response to European colonization, which was dissolved after the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War . Today's Iroquois/Six Nations people do not make any such distinction, use the terms interchangeably, but prefer the name Haudenosaunee Confederacy. After
3783-465: The Great Lakes. Many archaeologists and anthropologists believe that the League was formed about 1450, though arguments have been made for an earlier date. One theory argues that the League formed shortly after a solar eclipse on August 31, 1142, an event thought to be expressed in oral tradition about the League's origins. Some sources link an early origin of the Iroquois confederacy to
3880-805: The Haudenosaunee League. Those on the borders of Haudenosaunee territory in the Great Lakes region competed and warred with the nations of the League. French, Dutch, and English colonists, both in New France (Canada) and what became the Thirteen Colonies , recognized a need to gain favor with the Iroquois people, who occupied a significant portion of lands west of the colonial settlements. Their first relations were for fur trading , which became highly lucrative for both sides. The colonists also sought to establish friendly relations to secure their settlement borders. For nearly 200 years,
3977-583: The Haudenosaunee confederacy is often referred to as the Six Nations (or, for the period before the entry of the Tuscarora in 1722, the Five Nations). The word is Rotinonshón:ni in the Mohawk language . The origins of the name Iroquois are somewhat obscure, although the term has historically been more common among English texts than Haudenosaunee. Its first written appearance as "Irocois"
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4074-511: The Indian reservation was 51.8% Native American, 42.8% White, 1.7% Black or African American, 0.2% Pacific Islander, and 3.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.34%. Of the 304 households, 85.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.9% were married couples living together, 15.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 3.9% were non-families. 1.6% of households were one person, and 0.3% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size
4171-725: The Iroquoian-speaking Tuscarora people from the southeast were accepted into the confederacy, from which point it was known as the "Six Nations". The Confederacy likely came about between the years 1450 CE and 1660 CE as a result of the Great Law of Peace , said to have been composed by the Deganawidah the Great Peacemaker, Hiawatha , and Jigonsaseh the Mother of Nations. For nearly 200 years,
4268-399: The Iroquois Confederacy nations. In 2010, more than 45,000 enrolled Six Nations people lived in Canada, and over 81,000 in the United States. Haudenosaunee ("People of the Longhouse") is the autonym by which the Six Nations refer to themselves. While its exact etymology is debated, the term Iroquois is of colonial origin. Some scholars of Native American history consider "Iroquois"
4365-453: The Iroquois League. The explorer Robert La Salle in the 17th century identified the Mosopelea as among the Ohio Valley peoples defeated by the Iroquois in the early 1670s. The Erie and peoples of the upper Allegheny valley declined earlier during the Beaver Wars . By 1676 the power of the Susquehannock was broken from the effects of three years of epidemic disease, war with the Iroquois, and frontier battles, as settlers took advantage of
4462-473: The Iroquois as "an expansive military and political power ... [who] subjugated their enemies by violent force and for almost two centuries acted as the fulcrum in the balance of power in colonial North America". Historian Scott Stevens noted that the Iroquois themselves began to influence the writing of their history in the 19th century, including Joseph Brant (Mohawk), and David Cusick (Tuscarora, c. 1780–1840). John Arthur Gibson (Seneca, 1850–1912)
4559-408: The Iroquois established seven villages on the northern shores of Lake Ontario in present-day Ontario , collectively known as the "Iroquois du Nord" villages . The villages were all abandoned by 1701. Over the years 1670–1710, the Five Nations achieved political dominance of much of Virginia west of the Fall Line and extending to the Ohio River valley in present-day West Virginia and Kentucky. As
4656-529: The Iroquois had "such absolute Notions of Liberty that they allow no Kind of Superiority of one over another, and banish all Servitude from their Territories". As raids between the member tribes ended and they directed warfare against competitors, the Iroquois increased in numbers while their rivals declined. The political cohesion of the Iroquois rapidly became one of the strongest forces in 17th- and 18th-century northeastern North America. The League's Council of Fifty ruled on disputes and sought consensus. However,
4753-416: The Iroquois had lost control of considerable territory. Knowledge of Iroquois history stem from Haudenosaunee oral tradition , archaeological evidence, accounts from Jesuit missionaries, and subsequent European historians. Historian Scott Stevens credits the early modern European value of written sources over oral tradition as contributing to a racialized, prejudiced perspective about the Iroquois through
4850-442: The Iroquois launched large-scale attacks against neighboring tribes to avenge or replace the many dead from battles and smallpox epidemics. In 1628, the Mohawk defeated the Mahican to gain a monopoly in the fur trade with the Dutch at Fort Orange (present-day Albany), New Netherland . The Mohawk would not allow northern native peoples to trade with the Dutch. By 1640, there were almost no beavers left on their lands, reducing
4947-402: The Iroquois resisted attacking their own peoples. The Iroquois remained a large politically united Native American polity until the American Revolution , when the League was divided by their conflicting views on how to respond to requests for aid from the British Crown. After their defeat, the British ceded Iroquois territory without consultation, and many Iroquois had to abandon their lands in
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#17327730315795044-403: The Iroquois to middlemen in the fur trade between Indian peoples to the west and north, and Europeans eager for the valuable thick beaver pelts. In 1645, a tentative peace was forged between the Iroquois and the Huron, Algonquin, and French. In 1646, Jesuit missionaries at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons went as envoys to the Mohawk lands to protect the precarious peace. Mohawk attitudes toward
5141-404: The Iroquois turned their forces on the Neutral Nations on the north shore of Lakes Erie and Ontario, the Susquehannocks, their southern neighbor. Then they destroyed other Iroquoian-language tribes, including the Erie , to the west, in 1654, over competition for the fur trade. Then they destroyed the Mohicans . After their victories, they reigned supreme in an area from the Mississippi River to
5238-485: The Iroquois were a powerful factor in North American colonial policy. Alliance with the Iroquois offered political and strategic advantages to the European powers, but the Iroquois preserved considerable independence. Some of their people settled in mission villages along the St. Lawrence River , becoming more closely tied to the French. While they participated in French-led raids on Dutch and English colonial settlements, where some Mohawk and other Iroquois settled, in general
5335-425: The Latins did of old with their dixi —and of Koué , which is a cry sometimes of sadness, when it is prolonged, and sometimes of joy, when it is pronounced shorter. In 1883, Horatio Hale wrote that Charlevoix's etymology was dubious, and that "no other nation or tribe of which we have any knowledge has ever borne a name composed in this whimsical fashion". Hale suggested instead that the term came from Huron , and
5432-457: The League, giving rise to the many historic references to "Five Nations of the Iroquois". With the addition of the southern Tuscarora in the 18th century, these original five tribes still compose the Haudenosaunee in the early 21st century: the Mohawk , Onondaga , Oneida , Cayuga , and Seneca . According to legend, an evil Onondaga chieftain named Tadodaho was the last converted to the ways of peace by The Great Peacemaker and Hiawatha. He
5529-428: The Lower St. Lawrence River region. The Mi'kmaq named the last-conquered land Gespedeg or "last land", from which the French derived Gaspé . The "Kwedech" are generally considered to have been Iroquois, specifically the Mohawk ; their expulsion from Gaspé by the Mi'kmaq has been estimated as occurring c. 1535–1600. Around 1535, Jacques Cartier reported Iroquoian-speaking groups on the Gaspé peninsula and along
5626-522: The MLL merger was about getting Lyle Thompson - that was it." In the 2022 season, he set a new league record for most points (44 points) in a season across 9 games, while missing a game due to injury. He also led the league in one-point goals (26 goals). The record was broken two seasons later by Jeff Teat . Thompson opted to take a sabbatical from the PLL for the 2023 and 2024 season. He stated that he wants to focus on himself, his family and his community. The PLL website describes Lyle Thompson as "one of
5723-431: The MVP award. Heading into the 2023 NLL season , Inside Lacrosse ranked Thompson the #4 best forward in the NLL. Lyle Thompson has won the NLL Sportsmanship award multiple times. Thompson played for the Six Nations Chiefs of the Major Series Lacrosse League in the 2023 season, winning that season's MVP award and the championship. Lyle played for the Six Nations Chiefs of the Major Series Lacrosse League in
5820-440: The Mohawk Valley and elsewhere and relocate to the northern lands retained by the British. The Crown gave them land in compensation for the five million acres they had lost in the south, but it was not equivalent to earlier territory. Modern scholars of the Iroquois distinguish between the League and the Confederacy. According to this interpretation, the Iroquois League refers to the ceremonial and cultural institution embodied in
5917-416: The Onondaga Reservation is notoriously untrustworthy. According to a resident speaking in 2001, at the time she spoke, there had been no non-Native residents on the reservation since 1973. The property is in the LaFayette Central School District . The district operates Onondaga Nation School ( K-8 school ), with high school students going to LaFayette Junior/Senior High School . The State of New York owns
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#17327730315796014-458: The Six Nations/Haudenosaunee Confederacy were a powerful factor in North American colonial policy, with some scholars arguing for the concept of the Middle Ground, in that European powers were used by the Iroquois just as much as Europeans used them. At its peak around 1700, Iroquois power extended from what is today New York State, north into present-day Ontario and Quebec along the lower Great Lakes – upper St. Lawrence , and south on both sides of
6111-399: The St. Lawrence River, east to Montreal and the Hudson River , and south into what is today northwestern Pennsylvania. At its peak around 1700, Iroquois power extended from what is today New York State, north into present-day Ontario and Quebec along the lower Great Lakes – upper St. Lawrence , and south on both sides of the Allegheny Mountains into present-day Virginia and Kentucky and into
6208-412: The St. Lawrence River. Archeologists and anthropologists have defined the St. Lawrence Iroquoians as a distinct and separate group (and possibly several discrete groups), living in the villages of Hochelaga and others nearby (near present-day Montreal), which had been visited by Cartier. By 1608, when Samuel de Champlain visited the area, that part of the St. Lawrence River valley had no settlements, but
6305-658: The Tewaaraton Award a second consecutive time. He set a new career points record of 400 points, which was later broken by Chris Gray, who scored 401 points (which was across an extra year of eligibility due to the COVID pandemic ). Lyle Thompson plays both indoor and outdoor professional lacrosse. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest lacrosse players of all time. ESPN lacrosse analyst, Paul Carcaterra, has described Lyle as being on his ' Mount Rushmore ' of greatest lacrosse players, alongside attackman Mikey Powell , midfielder Gary Gait and defenseman David Pietramala . In 2017, Paul Rabil stated that Lyle's "legacy of success on
6402-519: The Thompsons moved from St. Regis Mohawk Reservation south to the Onondaga Reservation. The Onondaga house that they grew up in was built by Ji himself, and had no electricity or running water until about 2003. This was a factor in the amount of time they spent playing backyard lacrosse, as they did not have things like television or video games. Lyle had not grown up doing strength training, and developed those attributes later in his career. Growing up, Lyle admired his eldest brother, Jeremy, as he served as
6499-509: The Tuscarora to becoming accepted as the sixth nation in the confederacy in 1722; the Iroquois become known afterwards as the Six Nations. Other independent Iroquoian-speaking peoples, such as the Erie , Susquehannock , Huron (Wendat) and Wyandot , lived at various times along the St. Lawrence River , and around the Great Lakes . In the American Southeast, the Cherokee were an Iroquoian-language people who had migrated to that area centuries before European contact. None of these were part of
6596-480: The adoption of corn as a staple crop. Archaeologist Dean Snow argues that the archaeological evidence does not support a date earlier than 1450. He has said that recent claims for a much earlier date "may be for contemporary political purposes". Other scholars note that anthropological researchers consulted only male informants, thus losing the half of the historical story told in the distinct oral traditions of women. For this reason, origin tales tend to emphasize
6693-1193: The attack position for the Haudenosaunee men's national lacrosse team (then under the name Iroquois) in the 2018 World Lacrosse Championship in Israel. The team placed third. Lyle played at the attack position for the Haudenosaunee men's national lacrosse team in the 2023 World Lacrosse Championship in San Diego, California. The team placed third. GP –Games played; G –Goals; A –Assists; Pts –Points; LB –Loose balls; PIM –Penalty minutes; Pts/GP –Points per games played; LB/GP –Loose balls per games played; PIM/GP –Penalty minutes per games played. GP –Games played; G –Goals; 2PG –2-point goals; A –Assists; Pts –Points; Sh –Shots; GB –Ground balls; Pen –Penalties; PIM –Penalty minutes; FOW –Faceoffs won; FOA –Faceoffs attempted GP –Games played; G –Goals; 2PG –2-point goals; A –Assists; Pts –Points; Sh –Shots; GB –Ground balls; Pen –Penalties; PIM –Penalty minutes; FOW –Faceoffs won; FOA –Faceoffs attempted The Thompson brothers founded
6790-404: The circumstances dictated, creating a measured instability that only they could navigate. Their guiding principle was to avoid becoming attached to any single colony, which would restrict their options and risk exposure to external manipulation." Beginning in 1609, the League engaged in the decades-long Beaver Wars against the French, their Huron allies, and other neighboring tribes, including
6887-499: The confederacy did not speak for all five tribes, which continued to act independently and form their own war bands. Around 1678, the council began to exert more power in negotiations with the colonial governments of Pennsylvania and New York, and the Iroquois became very adroit at diplomacy, playing off the French against the British as individual tribes had earlier played the Swedes, Dutch, and English. Iroquoian-language peoples were involved in warfare and trading with nearby members of
6984-760: The field will live on for generations to come." Lyle Thompson was drafted as the top overall pick in the 2015 Collegiate Draft by the Florida Launch ; his brother Miles was drafted by the Launch the previous year. Lyle's first game was played against the Ohio Machine , and he played a total of eight games for the Launch during the 2015 season. He had 22 goals and 16 assists in his first season in Major League Lacrosse . On March 3, 2017, Lyle Thompson and his brother Jeremy Thompson were traded from
7081-537: The first Native American players to win the Tewaaraton Trophy; tewaaraton being the Mohawk term for the precursor of modern lacrosse. In the same year, Lyle was nominated for the 2014 Best Male College Athlete ESPY Award . He was also named the Lacrosse Magazine 2014 'Person of the Year', and is the only person to do so as a college player. In his last season of college lacrosse, Lyle won
7178-578: The greatest players of all-time" in the bio of his player page. On September 28, 2015, Lyle was drafted first overall in the 2015 NLL draft by the Georgia Swarm . Lyle played alongside his brother Miles on the Swarm. In 2017 , Thompson was named both league MVP and Championship MVP as the Swarm won their first NLL title. Winning the MVP award in only his third year in the NLL is the fastest any player has ever won
7275-639: The indigenous nations sometimes tried to remain neutral in the various colonial frontier wars, some also allied with Europeans, as in the French and Indian War , the North American front of the Seven Years' War. The Six Nations were split in their alliances between the French and British in that war. In Reflections in Bullough's Pond , historian Diana Muir argues that the pre-contact Iroquois were an imperialist, expansionist culture whose cultivation of
7372-582: The longhouse ' ) are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America. They were known by the French during the colonial years as the Iroquois League , and later as the Iroquois Confederacy , while the English simply called them the "Five Nations". The peoples of the Iroquois included (from east to west) the Mohawk , Oneida , Onondaga , Cayuga , and Seneca . After 1722,
7469-551: The median family income was $ 57,250. Males had a median income of $ 44,688 versus $ 28,750 for females. The per capita income for the Indian reservation was $ 15,425. About 8.6% of families and 7.6% of the population were below the poverty line , including 8.6% of those under age 18 and 4.4% of those age 65 or over. Many members of the Onondaga Nation decline to participate in the U.S. Census, as they do not consider themselves to be U.S. citizens. Therefore, census reportage of
7566-507: The migration of a majority to Canada, the Iroquois remaining in New York were required to live mostly on reservations. In 1784, a total of 6,000 Iroquois faced 240,000 New Yorkers, with land-hungry New Englanders poised to migrate west. "Oneidas alone, who were only 600 strong, owned six million acres, or about 2.4 million hectares. Iroquoia was a land rush waiting to happen." By the War of 1812 ,
7663-499: The most prolific passer in NCAA lacrosse history. Another ESPN lacrosse analyst, Anish Shroff said about Lyle in a 2015 Sportscenter episode: "He's been more than just the best player in college lacrosse. He's been more than just a generational player. Lyle Thompson has been transformative and transcendent." In a decade-retrospective piece for 2010s college lacrosse, Inside Lacrosse referred to Lyle Thompson as "the biggest “hit” of
7760-454: The name Iroquois) at the 2019 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship . The team won the silver medal, falling to Canada (19-12) in the championship finals game . Lyle Thompson played at the attack position for the Haudenosaunee men's national lacrosse team (then under the name Iroquois) in the 2014 World Lacrosse Championship . The team placed third, a new high placement record for the team. Lyle won first-team all-world honors . Lyle played at
7857-589: The next generation of lacrosse players, especially within the Indigenous American community. He cofounded the lacrosse company 'Thompson Brothers Lacrosse', which engages in event speaking, lacrosse development projects, and community building initiatives, while emphasizing the indigenous roots of the sport. Lyle Thompson is also an active humanitarian , using his platform for positive change, and has won humanitarian awards multiple times for these ventures. Among these pursuits are his participation in
7954-484: The peace soured while the Jesuits were traveling, and their warriors attacked the party en route. The missionaries were taken to Ossernenon village, Kanienkeh (Mohawk Nation) (near present-day Auriesville , New York), where the moderate Turtle and Wolf clans recommended setting them free, but angry members of the Bear clan killed Jean de Lalande and Isaac Jogues on October 18, 1646. The Catholic Church has commemorated
8051-635: The region. These tribes migrated to regions around the Mississippi River and the Piedmont regions of the east coast. Other Iroquoian-language peoples, including the populous Wyandot (Huron) , with related social organization and cultures, became extinct as tribes as a result of disease and war. They did not join the League when invited and were much reduced after the Beaver Wars and high mortality from Eurasian infectious diseases. While
8148-501: The second element kwédač , he suggests a relation to kouetakiou , kȣetat-chiȣin , and goéṭètjg – names used by neighboring Algonquian tribes to refer to the Iroquois, Huron, and Laurentian peoples. The Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America attests the origin of Iroquois to Iroqu , Algonquian for "rattlesnake". The French encountered the Algonquian-speaking tribes first, and would have learned
8245-538: The shovel shot, which is the salient component of his signature move, the Deyhaus Dunk . Together, the Thompson collective has popularized the traditional Indigenous American style of playing lacrosse, involving a more inspired, freestyle, versatile approach that incorporates a wider variety of stick handling, passing and shooting techniques, previously considered more unorthodox in mainstream codified lacrosse. They have been an inspiration and served as role models to
8342-501: The two French priests and Jesuit lay brother René Goupil (killed September 29, 1642) as among the eight North American Martyrs . Onondaga Reservation Onondaga Reservation is a Native American reservation in Onondaga County , New York , United States. It is the territory of the Onondaga Nation . It lies just south of the city of Syracuse . The population was 2,244 at the 2010 census. The Onondaga Reservation
8439-624: The two men Deganawidah and Hiawatha , while the woman Jigonsaseh , who plays a prominent role in the female tradition, remains largely unknown. The founders of League are traditionally held to be Dekanawida the Great Peacemaker, Hiawatha, and Jigonhsasee the Mother of Nations, whose home acted as a sort of United Nations. They brought the Peacemaker's Great Law of Peace to the squabbling Iroquoian nations who were fighting, raiding, and feuding with each other and with other tribes, both Algonkian and Iroquoian . Five nations originally joined in
8536-659: The weakened tribe. According to one theory of early Iroquois history, after becoming united in the League, the Iroquois invaded the Ohio River Valley in the territories that would become the eastern Ohio Country down as far as present-day Kentucky to seek additional hunting grounds. They displaced about 1,200 Siouan -speaking tribepeople of the Ohio River valley, such as the Quapaw (Akansea), Ofo ( Mosopelea ), and Tutelo and other closely related tribes out of
8633-409: Was 4.85 and the average family size was 4.67. In the Indian reservation, the population was spread out, with 50.2% under the age of 18, 6.6% from 18 to 24, 28.0% from 25 to 44, 11.7% from 45 to 64, and 3.5% 65 or older. The median age was 18 years. For every 100 females, there were 108.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 118.5 males. The median household income was $ 65,655 and
8730-459: Was a landmark decision, stating that they wanted to make their impact on their own. Lyle Thompson is widely considered the greatest lacrosse player in University at Albany history and one of the greatest college lacrosse players of all time. He has also been referred to as one of the greatest college athletes of his generation. ESPN lacrosse analyst , Paul Carcaterra, has referred to Lyle as
8827-472: Was advocated by Gordon M. Day in 1968, elaborating upon Charles Arnaud from 1880. Arnaud had claimed that the word came from Montagnais irnokué , meaning "terrible man", via the reduced form irokue . Day proposed a hypothetical Montagnais phrase irno kwédač , meaning "a man, an Iroquois", as the origin of this term. For the first element irno , Day cites cognates from other attested Montagnais dialects: irinou , iriniȣ , and ilnu ; and for
8924-508: Was an important figure of his generation in recounting versions of Iroquois history in epics on the Peacemaker . Notable women historians among the Iroquois emerged in the following decades, including Laura "Minnie" Kellogg (Oneida, 1880–1949) and Alice Lee Jemison (Seneca, 1901–1964). The Iroquois League was established prior to European contact , with the banding together of five of the many Iroquoian peoples who had emerged south of
9021-520: Was cognate with the Mohawk ierokwa "they who smoke", or Cayuga iakwai "a bear". In 1888, J. N. B. Hewitt expressed doubts that either of those words exist in the respective languages. He preferred the etymology from Montagnais irin "true, real" and ako "snake", plus the French -ois suffix. Later he revised this to Algonquin Iriⁿakhoiw as the origin. A more modern etymology
9118-457: Was controlled by the Mohawk as a hunting ground. The fate of the Iroquoian people that Cartier encountered remains a mystery, and all that can be stated for certain is when Champlain arrived, they were gone. On the Gaspé peninsula, Champlain encountered Algonquian-speaking groups. The precise identity of any of these groups is still debated. On July 29, 1609, Champlain assisted his allies in defeating
9215-404: Was in a sling , but Lyle would still attend lacrosse practice wielding his lacrosse with the one arm that was healthy. During this time, he developed an advanced skill set of one-handed lacrosse play, particularly bottom-hand one-handed play. This technique was integrated into his style of play, Lyle becoming noted for his "uncanny ability to wield the stick with one hand under immense pressure". It
9312-466: Was later popularized in the sport overall, despite being previously viewed as unorthodox, and generally discouraged by lacrosse coaches. In his freshman year of high school, he scored 114 points. He received first-team Times All-North honors and was named the section’s most valuable player as a freshman. Lyle Thompson played for LaFayette High School for his sophomore and junior years. In his sophomore year, he scored 59 goals 52 assists leading his team to
9409-509: Was offered the position as the titular chair of the League's Council, representing the unity of all nations of the League. This is said to have occurred at Onondaga Lake near present-day Syracuse, New York . The title Tadodaho is still used for the League's chair, the fiftieth chief who sits with the Onondaga in council. The Iroquois subsequently created a highly egalitarian society. One British colonial administrator declared in 1749 that
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