Question: What present-day region was the historic base of these Iroquoian-speaking indigenous people who believed in the small, winged sprite of Native American mythology?

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Coyote Oldman: Coyote Oldman is a duo of new-age musicians consisting of Native American flute players Barry Stramp and Michael Graham Allen.  The name Coyote Oldman is derived from the trickster archetype in Native American mythology.

Indigenous people in video gaming: Indigenous people have a long history of collaborating on the creation of video games.  It has only been with the release of Never Alone though that broad media attention has been paid to these projects.  There have been a growing number of game gatherings and community organizing around indigenous games happening in the United States and Canada.  Indigenous creators of video games have been featured in the DIGITAL MEDIA ART+CADE as part of imagineNATIVE and in "Memories of the Future/Souvenirs du futur" at SAW Video Media Art Centre in Ottawa.  Many early video games that depicted native people were often racist and perpetuated negative stereotypes (see Custer's Revenge).  Video games created by indigenous people allow the creators to self-determine how they are represented and they allow indigenous people to picture themselves in the future.

Marion Ironquill Meadmore: Marion Ironquill Meadmore (born 1936) Ojibwa-Cree Canadian was the first woman of the First Nations to attain a law degree in Canada.  She founded the first Indian and Métis Friendship Centre in Canada to assist indigenous people who had relocated to urban areas with adjustments to their new communities.  She edited the native newspaper "The Prairie Call", bringing cultural events as well as socio-economic challenges into discussion for native communities.  She was the only woman on the Temporary Committee of the National Indian Council, which would later become the Assembly of First Nations, and would become the secretary-treasurer of the organization when it was formalized.  She was one of the women involved in the launch of the Kinew Housing project, to bring affordable, safe housing to indigenous urban dwellers and a founder of the Indigenous Bar Association of Canada.  She has received the Order of Canada as well as many other honors for her activism on behalf of indigenous people.  She was a founder and currently serves on the National Indigenous Council of Elders.

Indigenous feminism: Indigenous feminism is a theory and practice of feminism that seeks sovereignty for Indigenous people.  This branch of feminism explains the oppression of Indigenous people as the result of a racist, patriarchal colonization.  It is a branch of feminist theory that developed out of a need to define the complexities Indigenous women face as a result of the intersections of race, ethnicity, and gender.  Indigenous feminism has grown from postcolonial feminism as it acknowledges the devastating consequences of colonization on Indigenous peoples, and the importance of decolonization in dismantling oppressive systems.  Indigenous feminism may go by other (geographically specific) names such as: Native American feminism and Tribal feminism in the United States and Canada, or Aboriginal feminism in Australia, but each of these regionally-adapted terms fall under the broad rubric of Indigenous feminism.  Differentiating between mainstream white feminism and/or liberal feminism and Indigenous feminism is important because "white feminist tend to focus on gender oppression, and overlook racial issues."  The term Indigenous feminism can refer to either to the academic or activist aspect of this practice "that both address sexism and promotes indigenous sovereignty."

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Tuscarora people: The Tuscarora (in Tuscarora "Skarù:ręˀ", "hemp gatherers" or "Shirt-Wearing People") are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government of the Iroquoian-language family, with members today in North Carolina, New York, and Ontario.  They coalesced as a people around the Great Lakes, likely about the same time as the rise of the Five Nations of the historic Iroquois Confederacy, also Iroquoian-speaking and based then in present-day New York.

Great Trail: The Great Trail (also called the Great Path) was a network of footpaths created by Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking indigenous peoples prior to the arrival of European colonists in North America.  It connected the areas of New England and eastern Canada, and the mid-Atlantic regions to each other and to the Great Lakes region.  Many major highways in the Northeastern United States were later constructed to follow the routes established thousands of years ago by Native Americans moving along these trails.

Mohawk people: The Mohawk people (who identify as Kanien'kehá:ka) are the most easterly tribe of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy.  They are an Iroquoian-speaking indigenous people of North America.  The Mohawk were historically based in the Mohawk Valley in present-day upstate New York west of the Hudson River; their territory ranged north to the St. Lawrence River, southern Quebec and eastern Ontario; south to greater New Jersey and into Pennsylvania; eastward to the Green Mountains of Vermont; and westward to the border with the Iroquoian Oneida Nation's traditional homeland territory.  As one of the five original members of the Iroquois League, the Mohawk were known as the Keepers of the Eastern Door.  For hundreds of years, they guarded the Iroquois Confederation against invasion from that direction by tribes from the New England and lower New York areas.  Their current major settlements include areas around Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence River in Canada and New York.

Neutral Nation: The Neutral Confederacy or Neutral Nation or Neutral people were a Iroquoian-speaking North American indigenous people, who lived near the northern shores of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie on the west side of the Niagara River west of the Tabacco Nation (Wenrohronon or Wenro).  Related to the Iroquois Confederation to their southeast and to the Huron peoples also living around Lake Ontario, the Erie people of the south shore of Lake Erie, the Tabacco people situated east of Lake Erie and the Susquehannocks of Central Pennsylvania, like the others of Iroquoian culture, the tribes would raid and feud with fellow Iroquoian tribes when they weren't gaming and engaging in friendly competitions, and generally possessed of wary relations with rival Algonquian peoples, such as inhabited the Canada to the East along the Saint Lawrence valley drainage catchment.  While the Iroquoian tribes were later known to historians for the fierce ways they waged of war, they were also cultures who far more often played competitive games, a largely agrarian society with farms admired and marveled over by European leaders writing reports home.  While not well known today in post-plagues and warfare indigenous populations, the Neutral tribes are confirmed to have comprised about 40 permanent settlements.

Awes-kon-wa: Awes-kon-wa is a Native American mythological figure of the Iroquois Mohawk people.  It is described as a small, winged sprite.

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Answer: upstate New York