They were members of the Iriquois League.
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The six nations are: Cayuga Oneida Onondaga Seneca Mohawk Tuscarora
The Confederacy is made up of 6 Nations; Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Oneida, Mohawk and Tuscarora; they all speak their own languages.
All those native nations belonged to a confederacy known as the "Iriquois" and that's y i am stupid
It was a powerful alliance of five (later six) different tribes who all spoke Iroquoian languages - but each language was different to all the others. They were the Mohawk, Cayuga, Seneca, Onondaga, Oneida and Tuscarora (from 1722).
They are all classed as eastern woodlands people. The Mohawk were the most easterly tribe, living along the Mohawk river in east central New York state. The Cayuga lived near Cayuga Lake, New York. The Seneca were the most westerly group and lived along the Genessee river and around Seneca lake. The Oneida and Onondaga lived between the Mohawks and the Cayuga.
Grand Council of the Haudenosaunee. Grand Council meetings of the Iroquois Confederacy are held for serious matters, which affect all of the member nations are Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora
The Iroquois Confederacy was a sophisticated political and social system. It united the territories of the five nations in a symbolic longhouse that stretched across the present-day state of New York. The original five nations of the Confederacy were divided into two groups: the Elders, consisting of the Mohawk, the Onondaga, and the Seneca; and the Younger, the Oneida and the Cayuga. Despite this distinction, all decisions of the Confederacy had to be unanimous.
they all share political power
In the 17th century all five Indian trides formed a union. A union is also called a confederacy. Their government was called The Great Peace Law. The Tuscarora people later joined the Graet Peace Law, so then there were five tribes in the confederacy. the onondaga, mohawk, oneida, seneca, and cayuga.
The Iroquois League came about by taking the advice of a peace-seeking man named Deganawida. They stopped warring with each other and formed an alliance. This alliance of the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca was the Iroquois League.
The iThe importance of wampum belts is that they were used by the Iroquois nations ( Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, and the Oneida,) to represent their history , treaty confirmations and much more they were made out of small cylinder beads and were used to design the illustration wampum belts recorded the path of peace between all the nations the Tuscarora joined years after so they are not on the beltmportance of wampum belts is that they were used by the Iroquois nations ( Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, and the Oneida,) to represent their history , treaty confirmations and much more they were made out of small cylinder beads and were used to design the illustration wampum belts recorded the path of peace between all the nations the Tuscarora joined years after so they are not on the belt
Iroquois is not the name of a tribe but of a league of confederated tribes: the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Mohawk (plus the Tuscarora after 1722).All of these were farming and hunting people who also fished and gathered wild plant foods. They cultivated the usual crops - maize, beans and squash.