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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Aug 12, 2023 · The Iroquois people, officially called the Haudenosaunee, boast of a cinema-class blend of political, cultural, and religious history dating back to the 15th century and origins that …

Nov 10, 2020 · The Iroquois Confederacy dates back several centuries, to when the Great Peacemaker founded it by uniting five nations: the Mohawks, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, the …

The Iroquois or Haudenosaunee were a powerful northeast Native American confederacy that lived primarily in Ontario, Canada, and upstate New York for over 4,000 years. Technically, …