The Iroquois Confederacy originally consisted of five separate nations – the Mohawks, who call themselves Kanienkehaka, or "people of the flint country,” the Onondaga, “people of the hills ...

Most everyone has heard of the Constitution of the United States, and some people can even name some of the authors and signers of the Constitution.

The Iroquois Confederacy comprises six nations: the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Tuscarora, ... "If someone hadn't put out prayers for me five hundred years ago, ...

This structure brought peace among the five-six nations, earning Deganawida the title of the Great Peacemaker. However, this peace was relative, as the Iroquois Confederacy did not hesitate to wage ...

He became the founder of the Five Nations confederacy (later to become the Six Nations). Dekanawidah first crossed Lake Ontario in a stone canoe and went to the Onondaga (near Syracuse, New York ...

The Oneida were one of the five founding nations of the Iroquois Confederacy in New York. Originally the Oneida inhabited the area that later became Central New York, particularly around Oneida ...

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.

Thirty years before chiefs of the Iroquois Confederacy entered the “Grand Council of Fire” chambers of Independence Hall in Philadelphia on June 11, 1776, to convince colonists breaking… ...