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Smoke dance Diverse natural materials used by North American Indians. (Left) Iroquois buckskin shoulder bag decorated with porcupine quills and deer hair, c. 1750. In the Linden-Museum fur Volkerkunde, Stuttgart, Germany. Length of pouch 24 cm. Map showing the distribution of Indigenous peoples of the Northeast Woodlands region in North America, with tribal names such as Algonquin, Ojibwa (Chippewa), Iroquois, Shawnee, and Powhatan labeled across present-day northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. Major lakes and rivers are marked, and a red boundary outlines the general region inhabited by these groups. Haudenosaunee Confederacy
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Tecumseh. Battle of the Thames, Ontario, Canada, and the death of Tecumseh. Col. Richard M. Johnson with the Kentucky volunteers on left battle with Tecumseh and his Native troops. Native American Shawnee chief. North American indian. (See Notes)
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Iroquoian peoples: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: eHRAF World Cultures - Iroquois. Oct 16, 2026
Add new Web site: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - The League of the Iroquois. Aug 11, 2026
Changed name to Iroquoian peoples and updated population estimate. Apr 17, 2025
Add new Web site: CiteseerX - The Iroquois family of genes: from body building to neural patterning (PDF). Feb 15, 2025
Add new Web site: CORE - "We Are an Independent Nation": A History of Iroquois Sovereignty. Dec 21, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Iroquois: the tree of peace and the war kettle. Oct 26, 2024
Add new Web site: eHRAF World Cultures - Iroquois. Aug 02, 2024
Add new Web site: Canada's History - Iroquois in the West. Feb 26, 2024
Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - Iroquois League: The Ancient and Powerful Union of Six Nations. May 23, 2023
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Iroquois. Mar 13, 2022
Add new Web site: U.S. History - The Iroquois Tribes. Nov 30, 2020
Updated population data. May 06, 2020
Add new Web site: Blackhawk Museum - Iroquois Family Life. Jan 15, 2019
Replaced photograph. Mar 09, 2018
Add new Web site: Carnegie Museum of Natural History - The Iroquois of the Northeast. Jun 28, 2016
Add new Web site: Indians.org - Iroquois Indians. Jun 27, 2016
Add new Web site: Quatr.us - Iroquois history - Native Americans. Jun 27, 2016
Media added. Aug 03, 2015
Cross-references added, and other changes made. Aug 03, 2015
Add new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Haudenosaunee (Iroquois). Nov 09, 2014
Add new Web site: UShistory.org - The Iroquois Tribe. Mar 13, 2014
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Iroquois Tribe. Mar 13, 2014
Media added. May 15, 2007
Article thoroughly revised. Mar 16, 2007
Added new Web site: Iroquois History. May 11, 2006
Article revised. Jun 10, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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