Iroquois Confederacy

Overview

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, also known as the Iroquois, are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America. They were known by the French during the colonial years as the Iroquois League, and later as the Iroquois Confederacy. They have also been called the Six Nations.

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Borders & accuracy

A confederation of independent groups; member territories shifted and overlapped, so the perimeter is approximate.

• SOURCEreconstructed from Natural Earth country boundaries
• DETAILreconstructed-clipped-country
• SNAPSHOT1700
• POLITY TYPEconfederation

Wars of this empire4

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

• Beaver Wars1609–1701
  Significant · 20K dead
• Iroquois-Algonquin Conflicts1300–1609
  Significant
• Iroquois Mourning Wars1600–1701
  Regional
• Battle of Ganondagan1687
  Regional