After convincing all five Iroquois nations to form a political union, Dekanawidah bound them all into the confederacy with a symbolic bundle of arrows. "And each nation will contribute one arrow ...

Excerpt from the website of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy: Called the Iroquois Confederacy by the French, and the League of Five Nations by the English, the confederacy is properly called the ...

Before the United States created its Constitution, Indigenous nations among the Fingerlakes and five northeast woodlands tribes formed what’s known as the Iroquois or Haudenosaunee Confederacy.

The Haudenosaunee, meaning “people of the longhouse,” was originally known as the Iroquois Confederation ... and Jigohsahseh (the mother of nations), they united five nations under the Great ...

In 1744, leaders of the Iroquois Confederacy met with representatives ... "Our wise Forefathers established Union and Amity between the Five Nations; this has made us formidable, this has given ...

comprising the Haudenosaunee or Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Historically, the Seneca occupied territory throughout central and western New York. As the westernmost of the Six Nations, the ...