USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Introduction. In the Eastern Woodlands, the area that is presently New York State gave rise to a confederation of six nations allied together in peace. Known as the Iroquois Confederacy, they call themselves Haudenosaunee, the People of the Longhouse.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Iroquois people have inhabited the areas of Ontario and upstate New York for well over 4, 000 years. Technically speaking, “Iroquois” refers to a language rather than a particular tribe. In fact, the Iroquois consisted of five tribes prior to European colonization.

Detailed explanation-3: -Iroquois Confederacy, or League of the Iroquois, Confederation of five (later six) Indian tribes across upper New York that in the 17th–18th century played a strategic role in the struggle between the French and British for supremacy in North America.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Iroquois Great Law of Peace was a constitution that established a democracy between five Iroquois-speaking tribes-the Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, and Mohawk. This group of five nations, called the Iroquois Confederacy, was established around 1450.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Iroquois Confederacy or the Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse), was made up of five tribes, Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and the Seneca originating from New York. In 1722, the Tuscarora tribe, who originated from North Carolina, joined the Confederacy.