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  • Iroquoian
    Iroquoian
    noun
    a family of North American Indian languages that includes Cherokee, Seneca, Mohawk, and Oneida.
  • iroquoian
    iroquoian
    noun
    a family of North American Indian languages including Cherokee, Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, and Onondaga: probably related to Siouan

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.


adjective

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

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

iroquoian British  
/ ˌɪrəˈkwɔɪən /

noun

  1. a family of North American Indian languages including Cherokee, Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, and Onondaga: probably related to Siouan

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Iroquois, their culture, or their languages

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Iroquoian

First recorded in 1690–1700; Iroquois + -an

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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

He was, moreover, the first to discover that the Tutelos of Virginia belonged to the Siouan family, and to identify the Cherokee as a member of the Iroquoian family of speech.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various

Occupying the stretch of country to the south of the Algonquins was the famous race known as the Iroquoian Family.

From The Dawn of Canadian History : A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada by Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby)

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

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