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Iroquois League

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  1. A confederacy of Native American tribes in upper New York state, dating to the sixteenth century.


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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

ONEIDAS, a tribe of the Iroquois League, 9.

From French Pathfinders in North America by Johnson, William Henry

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