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Smoke dance
Iroquoian dancer performing a smoke dance.
Iroquoian peoples
people
- Key People:
- Lewis Henry Morgan
- Horatio Hale
- Erminnie Adele Platt Smith
- On the Web:
- eHRAF World Cultures - Iroquois (June 11, 2025)
Top Questions
Who are the Iroquoian peoples?
Who are the Iroquoian peoples?
Where did the Iroquoian peoples traditionally live?
Where did the Iroquoian peoples traditionally live?
What role did warfare play in Iroquoian society?
What role did warfare play in Iroquoian society?
Iroquoian peoples, any member of the Indigenous peoples of North America who speak a language of the Iroquoian family—notably the Cayuga, Cherokee, Wyandot, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and Tuscarora. The peoples who spoke Iroquoian languages occupied a continuous territory around Lakes Ontario, Huron, and Erie in present-day New York state and Pennsylvania (U.S.) and southern Ontario and Quebec (Canada). The larger group of Iroquoian peoples should be differentiated from the Five Nations (later Six Nations) better known as the Iroquois Confederacy (self name Haudenosaunee Confederacy). As was typical of the Indigenous peoples of the American Northeast before colonization, Iroquoian groups ...(100 of 435 words)