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Iroquois
By

Brandon McDonald

Iroquois is the name given to the important confederacy of Native Americans of the Iroquian language family in the Eastern Woodlands culture area.

The Iroquois tribe was founded in the 16 century in what is now central New York State. The original confederacy consisted of five tribes the Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, and Seneca and was known as the five Nations, or the League of the Nations.

Sometime between 1715 and 1722, however, the Tuscaroras, an Iroqoian tribe originally of North Carolina, which had migrated to New York, was formally admitted to the confederacy and the name of the league was changed to the six Nations.

As representative members of the Iroquoian family and the ones first encountered and later most intensively studied by White people, the Iroquois gave their name to the family of which they are a part.

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The iroquois would sometimes fight against each and go to war against thir own tribes.
Sometimes when kids would misbehave there parents would tell them a man would come and take you in the woods and eat you, but what really happens is a disguised member of the tribe woud come and take the child into the woods and let them get away; the child never misbehaved again.

Iroquois were good farmers, a few of their many crops are corn , beans , pumpkins , potatos.