![]() Historically, however, they were competitors and enemies of the Iroquois Confederacy nations. ![]() They are considered Iroquoian in a larger cultural sense, all being descended from the Proto-Iroquoian people and language. Lawrence Iroquoians, Wendat (Huron), Erie, and Susquehannock, all independent peoples known to the European colonists, also spoke Iroquoian languages. Lawrence, and south on both sides of the Allegheny mountains into present-day Virginia and Kentucky and into the Ohio Valley. 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. For nearly 200 years, 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. 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. After 1722, the Iroquoian-speaking Tuscarora people from the southeast were accepted into the confederacy, from which point it was known as the "Six Nations". The peoples of the Iroquois included (from east to west) the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca. 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". "There Goes the Bride/Postscripts." Chicago Reader, March 7, 2003.The Iroquois ( / ˈ ɪr ə k w ɔɪ/ IRR-ə-kwoy or / ˈ ɪr ə k w ɑː/ IRR-ə-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 meaning "people who are building the longhouse") are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America. "Here Comes the Bride." Chicago Reader, August 4, 2000.Ģ. * Artwork for the LP/CD Music for Scattered Brains - AZġ. * Cover art on To Live and Shave in L.A.'s Ride a Cock Over Horse 7" (Menlo Park Recordings, 1996) * Detail From the Mountain Side (CD, Drag City, 2006) * Life on the Fly (LP/CD, Drag City, 2004) * Here is the "Is-Not" (CD, Atavistic, 1997) * We People Space With Phantoms (LP/CD, Atavistic, 1995) * Music for Scattered Brains (CD, Atavistic, 1997 LP, SG Research, 1995) Described by critics as Steely Dan-like smooth jazz, the switch from atonal noise rock surprised many listeners who were more familiar with the atonal noise rock of her earlier work. While she was in Bride of No No, Azita returned to her child-hood instrument, the piano, and wrote what would eventually be released under her own name: Enantiodromia, in 2003, and Life on the Fly(2004). During the same year, she self-released her first solo work Music for Scattered Brains on vinyl.īride of No No was another Azita project known for extreme theatrics, with band members disguising themselves onstage in what has been described as mummy-like burkhas. In late 1995, Azita played synthesizer for a short-lived Weasel Walter/Jim O'Rourke project Miss High-Heel. Well known in the Chicago music scene for her surreal, otherworldly costumes, Azita could be found with her head stuck in the bass drum of bands like Shellac while doing sound at the now-defunct Chicago rock club called the Fireside Bowl. The Scissor Girls broke up in late 1996, but playing bass in the acclaimed, spastic noise-rock group was not the only thing Azita was up to during the first half of the 1990s. Her family moved back to the United States soon after, and in the late 1980s, Azita began studying art at the Art Institute of Chicago.ĭisillusioned with the visual arts as a medium for expression, she turned to performance art and sound, and in 1991, formed the Scissor Girls. to Iranian parents, she spent part of her childhood in Iran and was attending grade school in Tehran when the Iranian revolution began in late 1978. ![]() She is usually associated with the Chicago no-wave scene, which included bands like the Flying Luttenbachers, U.S. Azita (born Azita Youssefi in 1971) is an experimental musician and artist from Chicago.
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