USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -As a gathering of all the Chiefs from all nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy the Grand Council is the world’s oldest representative democracy. With 50 Chiefs in total representing all the clans from all the nations they work to resolve disputes and plan for the welfare of all the people.

Detailed explanation-3: -These people called themselves “Haudenosaunee” or “people of the long house". The name “Iroquois” is a French variant on a term for “snake” given these people by the Hurons. There were other tribes who spoke a similar language, but who were not part of the confederacy.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.