FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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Haudenosaunee
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Algonquin
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Mohegan
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Hopi
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Detailed explanation-1: -Haudenosaunee (hoe-dee-no-SHOW-nee) means “people who build a. house.” The name refers to a CONFEDERATION or ALLIANCE among six Native American nations who are more commonly known as the Iroquois Confederacy. Each nation has its own identity. These nations are known as: ■
Detailed explanation-2: -The peoples of the Iroquois Confederacy, also known as the Six Nations, refer to themselves as the Haudenosaunee, (pronounced “hoo-dee-noh-SHAW-nee"). It means “peoples of the longhouse, ” and refers to their lengthy bark-covered longhouses that housed many families.
Detailed explanation-3: -Called the Iroquois Confederacy by the French, and the League of Five Nations by the English, the confederacy is properly called the Haudenosaunee Confederacy meaning People of the long house.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Haudenosaunee, or “people of the longhouse, ” commonly referred to as Iroquois or Six Nations, are members of a confederacy of Aboriginal nations known as the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
Detailed explanation-5: -The French named them the Iroquois, but they called themselves the Haudenosaunee which means People of the Longhouse. The British called them the Five Nations.