The Iroquois (/ ˈɪrəkwɔɪ, - kwɑː / IRR-ə-kwoy, -⁠kwah), also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee[a] (/ ˌhoʊdɪnoʊˈʃoʊni / HOH-din-oh-SHOH-nee; [8] lit. 'people who are building the longhouse') are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and...

Feb 15, 2025 · Iroquois, any member of the North American Indian tribes speaking a language of the Iroquoian family. They occupied a continuous territory around the Lakes Ontario, Huron, and Erie in present-day New York state and Pennsylvania (U.S.) and …

Nov 6, 2022 · One of the most well-known and influential tribes in Native American history, the Iroquois have a fascinating story. The name "Iroquois" refers to a language, not the particular …

Feb 15, 2025 · Iroquois Confederacy (or Haudenosaunee Confederacy), confederation of five (later six) Indian tribes across upper New York state that participated in the struggle between the French and British in North America. The Iroquois nations are the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora.

The Iroquoian peoples are an ethnolinguistic group of peoples from eastern North America. Their traditional territories, often referred to by scholars as Iroquoia, [1] stretch from the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in the north, to modern-day North Carolina in the south.

The Iroquois comprised five native tribes that inhabited what is now Ontario and upstate New York. All spoke a variant of the iroquois language. The Iroqois possessed a suprisingly complex social and political structure.

Aug 30, 2023 · The Iroquois Confederacy — also known as the Six Nations and the Haudenosaunee — was a league made up of six distinct Native American Indian nations that …

Jun 13, 2023 · The Iroquois, also known as the Haudenosaunee, are a confederacy of Native American tribes located in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. Comprising the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and later joined by the Tuscarora, the Iroquois Confederacy is one of the oldest democracies in the world.

The Iroquois (Haudenosaunee; “People of the Longhouse”) Confederacy of upper New York state and southeastern Canada is often characterized as one of the world’s oldest participatory democracies.

Jan 15, 2021 · The Haudenosaunee, also known as the Iroquois Confederacy, Iroquois Five Nations, or the Iroquois League, was one of the most powerful Native American polities north of the Rio Grande.