USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Iroquois Confederacy, an alliance of six Native American nations in New York, was divided by the Revolutionary War. Two of the nations, the Oneida and Tuscarora, chose to side with the Americans while the other nations, including the Mohawk, fought with the British.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Iroquois Confederacy sided with the British during the French and Indian War. The Iroquois Confederacy claimed that it owned the lands that made up the Ohio Country.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The British alliance was attractive to the Iroquois because they were old enemies of the Algonquin and the Huron peoples. The war reignited old conflicts in the Ohio Valley between the Iroquois and the Algonquins and Hurons.