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The Iroquois people's name for themselves is Haudensaunee which translates as 'The People of the Longhouse' or more accurately 'They Are Building a Long House'. The Iroquois are not one people, but a confederacy of originally five different nations - Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca, with the Tuscarora joining later. The name is a metaphor for the confederacy indicating that the different peoples live together as a family.

The Grand Council of the Haudenosaunee consists (and always has) of 50 chiefs drawn from the six nations who form a loose government of sorts. In 1988 the US Congress passed a resolution to recognise the influence that the League of Six Nations had on the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.

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Generally speaking the Iroquois, an eastern woodlands tribe.

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