A powerful and warlike confederacy of Indian tribes, formerly inhabiting Central New York and constituting most of the Five Nations. Also, any Indian of the Iroquois tribes.
an American Native confederacy of New York that consisted of the Cayuga, Mohawk, Omeida, Onondaga, and Seneca peoples
any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York state; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution
a family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois peoples
A group of Native American tribes in upstate New York, of a common language and heritage, who formed a confederacy of mutual protection and agreement. The tribes were the Oneida, Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora (18th century addition).
A powerful group of Native nations in the northeast of North America, which came to include the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora. The Iroquois Confederacy was most powerful around 1680. After that, war and European diseases gradually weakened them.
The Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee, also known as the League of Peace and Power, Five Nations, or Six Nations) is a group of First Nations/Native Americans. It was originally made up of five tribes: the Mohawk, the Oneida, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, and the Seneca. A sixth tribe, the Tuscarora, joined after the original five nations were formed.