Haudenosaunee Confederacy
Map of the initial nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, from History of the Five Indian Nations Depending on the Province of New-York, by Cadwallader Colden, 1755.
Haudenosaunee Confederacy
American Indian confederation
Also known as: Five Nations, Iroquois Confederacy, Iroquois League, League of Five Nations, Six Iroquois Nations, Six Nations(Show More)
Haudenosaunee Confederacy, confederation of five (later six) Indigenous peoples across upper New York state that during the 17th and 18th centuries played a strategic role in the struggle between the French and British for mastery of North America. The five original Haudenosaunee nations were the Mohawk (self-name: Kanien’kehá:ka [“People of the Flint”]), Oneida (self-name: Onᐱyoteʔa∙ká [“People of the Standing Stone”]), Onondaga (self-name: Onoñda’gega’ [“People of the Hills”]), Cayuga (self-name: Gayogo̱hó:nǫ’ [“People of the Great Swamp”]),...
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