1. Plagiarism Exercise Plagiarism is taking credit for other peoples’ words, works, and ideas.

2. Likewise, constant warfare for furs altered the dynamics of tribal politics by shifting power from cautious elders to headstrong young warriors. The sachems (chiefs), one group of Seneca warriors said scornfully, ‘were a parcel of Old People who say much but who Mean or Act very little.’ The position and status of women changed in especially complex ways. Traditionally, eastern woodland women had a voice in political councils because they were the chief providers of food and handcrafted goods. As a French Jesuit noted of the Iroquois, ‘The women are always the first to deliberate…on private or community matters. They hold their councils apart and…advise the chiefs…,so that the latter may deliberate on them in their turn.’ The disruption of farming by warfare and the influx of European goods undermined the economic basis of women’s power.

3. Likewise, constant warfare for furs altered the dynamics of tribal politics by shifting power from cautious elders to headstrong young warriors. The sachems (chiefs), a group of Seneca warrior said scornfully, ‘were a parcel of old people who say much but who Mean or Act very little.’ The position and status of Indian women changed in especially complex and contradictory ways. Traditionally, eastern woodland women had a voice in political councils because they were the chief providers of food and handcrafted goods. As a French Jesuit noted of the Iroquois, ‘The women are always the first to deliberate…on private or community matters. They hold their councils apart and…advise the chiefs…,so that the latter may deliberate on them in their turn.’ The disruption of farming by warfare and the influx of European goods undermined the economic basis of women’s power (America, 62).

4. Likewise, constant warfare for furs altered the dynamics of tribal politics by shifting power from cautious elders to headstrong young warriors.

5. “Likewise, constant warfare for furs altered the dynamics of tribal politics by shifting power from cautious elders to headstrong young warriors” (America, 62).

6. Likewise, constant warfare altered tribal politics by shifting power to headstrong young warriors.

7. “Likewise, constant warfare… altered…tribal politics by shifting power…to headstrong young warriors” (America, 62).

8. Native peoples’ cultures and villages slowly eroded due to continuous warfare and an influx of European trade goods. These two events shifted village power away from tribal elders and women to the strongest warriors.

9. Native peoples’ cultures and villages slowly eroded due to continuous warfare and an influx of European trade goods. These two events shifted village power away from tribal elders and women to the strongest warriors (America, 62).

10. According to the authors in America, A Concise History, native peoples’ cultures and villages slowly eroded due to continuous warfare and an influx of European trade goods.

11. According to the authors in America, A Concise History, native peoples’ cultures and villages slowly eroded due to continuous warfare and an influx of European trade goods (America, page 62).

12. Native peoples’ cultures and villages slowly eroded due to continuous warfare and an influx of European trade goods. These two events shifted village power away from tribal elders and women to the strongest warriors. As a result of these internal power shifts, roughly two-thirds of native tribes began to rely almost exclusively on warfare to acquire the necessary goods they needed for simple survival.

13. Native peoples’ cultures and villages slowly eroded due to continuous warfare and an influx of European trade goods. These two events shifted village power away from tribal elders and women to the strongest warriors (America, 62). As a result of these internal power shifts, roughly two- thirds of native tribes began to rely almost exclusively on warfare to acquire the necessary goods they needed for simple survival (Taylor, 243).

14. Conclusion If the paragraph is entirely your own opinion, no documentation is needed. If the paragraph contains both your opinion, and ideas/data/evidence from anywhere else, there must be documentation Pretty much every paragraph in your paper should have sources The citations need to come within, or at the end of each paragraph, not simply in a bibliography at the end of the paper.