Iroquois

Examples

• All

• My grandmother was a full-blooded Iroquois.

  The Women of Brewster Place (1989)

• The Crown promised the Iroquois land in Quebec in exchange for the Iroquois Confederacy's support against the American colonists.

  Academic text (2011)

• But it is clear that the Iroquois thought of their actions in wider terms than economic ones.

  Academic text (1992)

• Did the Iroquois Confederacy have any impact on our Constitution?

• You know George Washington, his nickname among the Iroquois was Town Destroyer.

  Robinson Erhardt

• Another exhibit focused on how Indigenous artists conceptualize landscapes was Lifeworlds-Artscapes: Contemporary Iroquois Art.

  Academic text (2008)

• Also known as the Iroquois, these nations include the Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, and Mohawk.

  Academic text (2017)

• Now our first performer is Leah Shenandoah, who is Oneida Wolf, clan member of the Iroquois Confederacy.

  Harvard University

• The Iroquois played a significant role in early American history by forming a powerful alliance among several tribes.

• The Iroquois Confederacy, also known as the Haudenosaunee, established a complex system of governance among its member nations.

Synonyms

H

Haudenosaunee

vsIroquois

9.9

A person who belongs to one of the Haudenosaunee nations

is the commonly used English name for that same confederacy

Compounds

L

League of Iroquois

8.5

A group of five Iroquois tribes in eastern North America that formed a political alliance and later added a sixth

I

Iroquois League

8.6

A group of Native American tribes in northeastern North America that joined together

Surface Forms

Etymology