The peoples of the Iroquois Confederacy, also known as the Six Nations, refer to themselves as the Haudenosaunee, (pronounced "hoo-dee-noh-SHAW-nee").

The Iroquois Confederacy comprises six nations: the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Tuscarora, and Seneca, whose historical territory is Upstate New York.

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 ...

The Tuscarora coalesced as a people around the Great Lakes, likely about the same time as the rise of the Five Nations of the historic Iroquois Confederacy, also Iroquoian-speaking and based then ...

Today, leaders all over the world can still learn from the Iroquois. They believed good leadership means planning for the present and seven generations into the future.

Initially, five tribes of the Iroquois people came together to form a political and cultural confederacy.

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.

Their language and culture are similar to the Five Nations with some differences. Tuscarora comes from the Haudenosaunee word "Skarureh," which means people who split the hemp.

In 1744, leaders of the Iroquois Confederacy met with representatives of several British colonies to negotiate a treaty. One of the Native Americans, an Onondaga diplomat named Canassatego ...