USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Known as the Iroquois Confederacy, or Haudenosaunee, this league of nations emerged among five northeast woodlands tribes that had been plagued by wars of retribution and violence for many generations.

Detailed explanation-2: -The resulting confederacy, whose governing Great Council of 50 peace chiefs, or sachems (hodiyahnehsonh), still meets in a longhouse, is made up of six nations: the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora.

Detailed explanation-3: -a union of Native American peoples established about 1570. The groups involved, all in north-eastern America, were the Cayuga, the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga and the Seneca. The League was originally also called the Five Nations.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -They were the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, and the Seneca. They lived near one another in what is now New York State. Well before Europeans came to North America, they organized the Iroquois League. The goal was to promote peace among themselves.