After convincing all five Iroquois nations to form a political union, Dekanawidah bound them all into the confederacy with a symbolic bundle of arrows. "And each nation will contribute one arrow ...

Excerpt from the website of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy: Called the Iroquois Confederacy by the French, and the League of Five Nations by the English, the confederacy is properly called the ...

Over 800 years ago the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy was established during a total solar eclipse. Before the United States created its Constitution, Indigenous nations among the ...

comprising the Haudenosaunee or Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Historically, the Seneca occupied territory throughout central and western New York. As the westernmost of the Six Nations, the ...

In 1649, the Iroquois attacked and massacred. In 1649, the Iroquois attacked their weakened enemy and Huronia was destroyed. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) They benefitted from the ...

who later mused in a 1751 letter to a friend that it would be “a very strange Thing” if the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, also known as the Haudenosaunee, were able to form a union ...

The Haudenosaunee, meaning “people of the longhouse,” was originally known as the Iroquois ... reflects the Confederacy's mission and its link to Jigohsahseh, the Mother of Nations.