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Bookmark or Share- Origins of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) ConfederacyThe 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. They arrived in the historical record in the 16th-century CE when European colonists began interacting with the Haudenosaunee's five constituent nations – the Onondaga, Mohawk (who called themselves the ...
- Iroquois | History, Culture, & Facts | BritannicaIroquois, 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 southern Ontario and Quebec (Canada).
- Iroquois - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaName. The Iroquois call themselves the "Haudenosaunee", which means "People of the Longhouse," or more accurately, "They Are Building a Long House."They believe that the Great Peacemaker came up with the name when the League was formed. It means that the nations of the League should live together as families in the same longhouse.
- The History and Culture of the Iroquois - Native HopeIroquois children played with corn husk dolls and played lacrosse. The Iroquois also had a game called "snowsnake," in which children would dig tunnels in the snow and then slide long poles into the holes and see whose rod would go the farthest. Both men and women could become healers and were well-versed in using herbs to treat illnesses. They ...
- Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) | The Canadian EncyclopediaThe Haudenosaunee Confederacy. The five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy — also known as the Iroquois League or League of the Five Nations — occupied an area from the Genesee River on the west, through the Finger Lakes regions, to the Hudson River on the east in what is known as the Eastern Woodlands cultural area. The linguistically related Tuscarora moved north from North ...
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