Iroquois League

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.

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He was one of the founders of the Iroquois League of Nations, which is called to this day the "Great Peace."

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Like carcajoux, they defile the Iroquois League and smother its fire in their filth!

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The Iroquois League represented the most advanced social organization attained by Indians that had not passed the lower stage of barbarism.

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They were not loyal to the Iroquois League's policy of friendliness to the English, but inclined towards the French, and were practically the only Iroquois who fought for the Americans in the War of Independence.

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