2024年12月21日 · 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 southern Ontario and Quebec (Canada).

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...

2022年11月6日 · 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 tribe itself. In fact, the Iroquois people called themselves the Haudenosaunee, or …

The Iroquois Confederacy of upper New York state and southeastern Canada is often characterized as the world’s oldest participatory democracy. Learn more about the Native American peoples who made up this influential body.

Historical Iroquoian people were the Five nations of the Iroquois or Haudenosaunee, Huron or Wendat, Petun, Neutral or Attawandaron, Erie people, Wenro, Susquehannock and the St. Lawrence Iroquoians. The Cherokee are also an Iroquoian-speaking people.

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.

The Iroquois Indians are Native American people that lived in the Northeastern U.S. The area is also referred to as the Eastern Woodlands region and encompasses New York State and the immediate surrounding areas. The Iroquois originally called themselves Kanonsionni, meaning people of the Longhouse (the name of the shelter they live in), but ...

The Iroquois were a League or Confederacy of Native American nations in the Northeastern part of America. Originally they were formed by five nations: the Cayuga, Onondaga, Mohawk, Seneca, and Oneida.

The Iroquois were a group of Native Americans which comprised of several different tribes. The main tribes in the Iroquois Nation included the Seneca, the Onondaga, the Mohawk, the Oneida and the Cayuga. They were sometimes also referred to as the Five Nations. Where did they live?

2023年8月12日 · Native to present-day New York State and Pennsylvania and Canada’s southern Ontario and Quebec are five to six nations known as the Iroquois Confederacy. These nations feature among native North American tribes across the United States and Canada.