Iroquoian

American  

[ir-uh-kwoi-uhn] / ˌɪr əˈkwɔɪ ən /

noun

1. a family of North American Indian languages that includes Cherokee, Seneca, Mohawk, and Oneida.

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adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Iroquois people.

2. of or belonging to the Iroquoian family of languages.

Etymology

Origin of Iroquoian

First recorded in 1690–1700; Iroquois + -an

Example Sentences

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

An Iroquoian town situated, in 1535, on Montreal Island.

From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various

See also Mounds Ingle recess, 38 Ionic capital, at Athens, 43; at Christ's Cross, 42, 43 Iron, branding, 20; wrought-iron, in Va., 66 Iroquoian, 2, 5 Isle of Wight Co.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee

Unlike the Siouan and the Iroquoian, the Algonquian tribes of tidewater Virginia, such as the Powhatans, did not erect earth mounds—at least, as far as present evidence indicates.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee