of, relating to, or characteristic of the Iroquois people.
of or belonging to the Iroquoian family of languages.
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In 1758, the Shawnee tribe, the Delaware tribe, and the powerful Iroquoian Confederacy agreed to ally with the English in exchange for their promise to respect Indigenous rights to contested lands on the frontier.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
To illustrate this concept, Snyder points to the story of the Westo Indians, a group originally from around Lake Erie, who spoke an Iroquoian language.
From Slate • Jan. 18, 2016
Unlike most linguistic stocks, the Iroquoian tribes did not occupy a continuous area, but when first known to Europeans were settled in three distinct regions, separated from each other by tribes of other lineage.
From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley
I learnt, too, that the Iroquoian tribes were now increasing in numbers, and must not be looked upon as a diminishing people.
From The Truth About Woman by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)
Occupying the stretch of country to the south of the Algonquins was the famous race known as the Iroquoian Family.
From The Dawn of Canadian History : A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada by Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby)
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