What was the iroquois confederacy?
The Iroquois [Haudenosaunee is the real name] was a confederation of 6 [originally five, but don’t forget the Tuscarora] nations that formed about 1400 in the area west of the Hudson, in the Mohawk Valley, north shore of Lake Erie, south shore of Lake Erie into the Ohio Valley. The nations that made up the Haudenosaunee were Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk, and joined in the 1600s by the Tuscarora. The confederacy was the first known government in history that had representation based on population. It is probably true that the writers of the U.S. Constitution adopted this model for the US House of Representatives.
