Iroquois Finger Lakes region, and upstate New York along the St. Lawrence River area downstream to today's Montreal. French, Dutch and British colonists in both New France (Canada) and the what became the Thirteen Colonies recognized a need to gain favor with the Iroquois people, who occupied a significant portion of lands west of colonial settlements. Their first relations with them were for fur trading, which was favorable and became lucrative to both sides. The colonists also sought to establish positive relations to secure their settlement borders. For nearly 200 years the Iroquois were a powerful factor in North American colonial
Penistone Hill Country Park Penistone Hill Country Park Penistone Hill Country Park is an open space of moorland that is located to west of Haworth and north-west of Oxenhope in West Yorkshire, England. The park's highest point is detailed with a trig point which is above sea level. Since 1994, the park has been notified as being an SSSI as part of the South Pennine Moors. Whilst "Pen" is an old word (notably Welsh for hill) and Penistone (South Yorkshire) means 'Farm on the Hill', it is believed that Penistone Hill derives its name from the gambling game "Gamepenny Stone". It is known that