Iroquois League
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He cited the Iroquois League, a federation of six Indian nations founded around 1250, as the model for Benjamin Franklin’s concept of federalism.
From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2021
For example, five Native American groups in what is now New York State—the Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, and Mohawk—formed a confederation known as the Iroquois League.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016
In the late 1500s, five of these tribes in upper New York—the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca—formed the Iroquois League.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Last year the Iroquois League was dissolved, the Illinoisans, a similar organization, set up.
From Time Magazine Archive
TUSCARORAS, a tribe of the Iroquois League, 9.
From French Pathfinders in North America by Johnson, William Henry
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