A German-born diplomat in this polity earned the title “Holder of the Heavens” for negotiating peace treaties alongside James Logan. This polity used “Condolence Canes” to record succession amongst its rulers. The legendary creation of this polity occurred after its leaders uprooted a pine tree and cast all their weapons into the hole. A “half-king” in this polity named Tanacharison conducted trade and diplomacy at Logstown before his arrest by Governor Duquesne (“doo-KANE”). A speech given by a leader in this polity at the Treaty of Lancaster apocryphally inspired the plan to unify the colonies at the Albany Congress. A “Great Peacemaker” and Hiawatha were semi-mythical founders of, for 10 points, what northeastern Native American confederacy? ■END■
ANSWER: Iroquois Confederacy [or Iroquois League; accept Haudenosaunee, Five Nations, or Six Nations; accept Mingo; prompt on Mohawk or Kanyen’kehà:ka, Seneca or Onödowáʼga, Onondaga or Onontaerrhonon or Onoñda’gegá’’ by asking “what larger polity were they part of?”] (The diplomat in the first line is Conrad Weiser.)
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