Who are the Iroquois?
The Iroquois were a powerful Native American Confederacy that was made up of five, and later six, tribes. They called themselves the “Haudenosaunee”. It is believed they banded together in the 1300s, although oral tradition argues that the federation was formed around August 31, 1142, based on a coinciding solar eclipse. The Confederacy existed until 1779, when it finally split over the American Revolution. The tribes of the confederacy were the Mohawk, the Onedia, the Seneca, the Onodaga, the Cayuga and later the Tuscarora.
