Iroquois League

Cultural  

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

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Example Sentences

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

The Chimera, a composite creature, lion, goat and serpent, might represent, Lafitau thought, a league of three totem tribes, just as wolf, bear and turtle represented the Iroquois League.

From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Lang, Andrew