Iroquois Indians

Iroquois Indians
a-ni-nv-da-we-gi

English-Cherokee transcription dictionary. 2009.

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  • Iroquois — • A noted confederacy of five, and afterwards six, cognate tribes of Iroquoian stock, and closely cognate languages, formerly occupying central New York, and claiming right of conquest over nearly all the tribes from Hudson Bay to Tennessee River …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Iroquois kinship — (also known as bifurcate merging) is a kinship system used to define family. Identified by Louis Henry Morgan in his 1871 work Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family , the Iroquois system is one of the six major kinship systems …   Wikipedia

  • Iroquois — This article is about an association of indigenous tribes of North America.. For other uses, see Iroquois (disambiguation). Iroquois Haudenosaunee Total population …   Wikipedia

  • Iroquois — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Iroquois (homonymie). Iroquois Premiers contacts entre Iroquois et explorateurs européens …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Iroquois Indian Museum — infobox Museum name= Iroquois Indian Museum established= 1992 location= 324 Caverns Rd, Howes Cave, New York, USA visitors= director= website= [http://www.iroquoismuseum.org/ Iroquois Indian Museum] The Iroquois Indian Museum in Howes Cave, New… …   Wikipedia

  • Iroquois — /ir euh kwoy , kwoyz /, n., pl. Iroquois, adj. n. 1. a member of a North American Indian confederacy, the Five Nations, comprising the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas, and later the Tuscaroras. adj. 2. belonging or relating to… …   Universalium

  • Iroquois —    A confederation of tribes, at first five, the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Seneca, to which the Tuscarora was added after 1726, as well as the remnants of many other tribes. They were known to the English colonists as the Five Nations …   The makers of Canada

  • Indians —    Ch Superstitions of, 10, 12; council held to consider best policy to adopt in dealing with them, 108 111; murders committed by, 115; their great esteem for Champlain, 159; difficulty of educating their children, 233. S Their general… …   The makers of Canada

  • IROQUOIS —    one of the most intelligent branches of the North American Indians, comprised a confederation of five, afterwards six, tribes, among whom the leading place was taken by the Mohawks; their territory lay inland in what is now New York State and… …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • American Black Indians — Infobox Ethnic group group = African Native Americans caption = Notable African Native Americans: Bessie Coleman·James Earl Jones · Beyonce Knowles ·Rosa Parks · Lolo Jones · Oprah Winfrey poptime =182,494 are registered(2000) * However experts… …   Wikipedia

  • Huron Indians — • If language may be taken as a fair criterion to go by, the Hurons proper were the original stock from which sprang all the branches of the great Iroquoian family, whether included in the primitive federation of the Five Nations, or standing… …   Catholic encyclopedia

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