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I don't know about saying hello, but in all the movies I've seen, especially Peter Pan, people always raise their left arm forming an L and say "How" to make peace with Indians.

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Answer: Meanwhile, in the real world outside the movies, there is no such language as "Iroquois" - the Iroquois tribes (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca) each spoke their own language. Holding up your arm and saying "how" to any of these people in the 17th or 18th centuries would get you tortured and killed as an enemy. Anyone who thinks they can learn real history from American movies is extremely foolish.

The Oneida tribe used the greeting she·kú for hello.

In Cayuga you said either sgęnǫ (hello/how are you) or hai (hello).

In Mohawk the word khwe was used for hello or hi.

In Seneca the general term of greeting was niyáwë skênö'.

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