Haudenosaunee

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy, also known as the Iroquois, is a confederacy of Native American and First Nations peoples in northeast North America. Known by the French as the Iroquois League and later the Iroquois Confederacy, they were also called the Six Nations, or Five Nations before 1722. The Confederacy was likely formed between 1142 and 1660, emerging from the Great Law of Peace. Its peoples included the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca, with the Tuscarora joining after 1722. For nearly 200 years, the Haudenosaunee were a powerful factor in North American colonial policy, with their power extending across a wide region around 1700.