Where do the Iroquois Indians live?
The Iroquois tribes are original residents of what is now New York state. (The exception is the Tuscaroras, who came from North Carolina to join their northern kinfolk.) Some Iroquois people still live in New York today, while others retreated to Canada in the 1700’s. What language do the Iroquois Indians speak? There were six different languages spoken by the Iroquois nations: Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Tuscarora. These languages are all related to each other, just as the European languages Spanish, French, and Italian are all related to each other. Some Iroquois people could speak more than one of these languages. In particular, important Iroquois men usually learned Mohawk, because Mohawk was the language they usually used at the Great Council and at Iroquois religious festivals. Most Iroquois people speak English today, but some people, especially elders, still speak the native language of their own tribe. Here is a comparative chart of Iroquois words, a website
