Iroquoian
- noun
- /ˌɪrəˈkwɔɪən/
- Specialized
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iroques
- From this evidence, one should not conclude that either white beads or "black" (as used here, a gloss for dark blue or purple) beads declined in popularity among the Northern Iroquoians by the middle of the seventeenth century.
- Northern Iroquoian
Examples
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The Iroquoian peoples have traditionally lived in the northeastern United States and Canada.
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Many scholars study the Iroquoian family of languages to understand their history and development.
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According to MacDonald, precontact Iroquoians built steam lodge structures both above ground and as semisubterranean structures.
Academic text (2017) -
Among the Northern Iroquoians and the Northeastern Woodland Indians generally, color is a semantically organizing principle of ritual states of being and of ritual material culture. Three colors predominate: white, black, and red.
Academic text (1992) -
At the turn of the sixteenth century, the indigenous populations of northeastern North America were either Algonquian, Northern Iroquoian, or Siouan speakers (c.f. Trigger 1978).
Academic text (1992) -
Northern Iroquoians, Algonquians, and Siouans did not live in a natural world, but in a social world inhabited by human kinds of people, real men (man-beings), and by other-than-human kinds of people.
Academic text (1992) -
Northern Iroquoians still preferred small white tubular beads and small dark "blue" tubular beads, but preferred that beads of these colors, forms, and sizes be made of marine shell.
Academic text (1992) -
At the turn of the sixteenth century, the mythical reality of the Northern Iroquoians, like the mythical reality of their Old World contemporaries, was ethnocentric, anthropocentric, and geocentric.
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The Iroquoian languages are an important part of North American Indigenous culture.
Synonyms
A group of North American native languages first spoken by the Iroquois and related groups
A group of Native American languages spoken by people in New York and Canada
Compounds
- Specialized
A group of North American native languages first spoken by the Iroquois and related groups
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Iroquoian comes from the name Iroquois, a European name for a group of native peoples who call themselves Haudenosaunee, meaning 'People of the Longhouse'. So, Iroquoian describes the family of languages spoken by those peoples, like Mohawk, Oneida, and Seneca.
