Haudenosaunee
Indigenous confederacy in North America
Summary
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.
Originally created by Travist
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