What is the Iroquois also known as?
Q: What is the Iroquois also known as?
A: The Iroquois are also known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the Longhouse".
Q: When did the Iroquois come together in an group?
A: The Iroquois came together in an group known today as the Iroquois League, or the "League of Peace and Power" in the 16th century or earlier.
Q: How many nations were part of the first Iroquois League?
A: The first Iroquois League was often known as the Five Nations, made up of Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca.
Q: Where did Europeans first encounter the Iroquois?
A: When Europeans first arrived in North America, they encountered the Iroquois living mostly in what is now northeastern United States, mostly in what is today upstate New York, west of Hudson River and through Finger Lakes region.
Q: Where do most of them live today?
A: Today, most of them live mostly in New York and Canada.
Q: What is believed to be different between “Iroquoian League” and “Iroqouis Confederacy”?
A: According to some modern scholars belief, there is a difference between “Iroqouis League” which stands for ceremonies and culture found at Grand Council while “Iroqouis Confederacy” stands for political and diplomatic group that was made after Europeans began colonizing America.
Q: What happened to Confederacy after American Revolutionary War?
A: After American Revolutionary War ,the Confederacy broke up .
