IROQUOIS

Iroquois

The Iroquois , also known as the Haudenosaunee, the Five Nations and Five Nations of the Iroquois, and the Ganonsyoni, are a historically powerful important Native American people who formed the Iroquois Confederacy, a league of five distinct nations. French, Dutch and British colonists in both Canada and the Thirteen Colonies wanted to curry favor with the Iroquois; for nearly 200 years considerations of the Iroquois were a powerful factor in North American colonial policy-making decisions. All sides wooed them, each settlement feared them, politically they were unique, a large Native ...

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