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The Iroquois
Native Americans were the first people to live in America before any other man came. It is believed that the Native Americans came from Asia way back during the Ice Age through a land bridge of the Bering Strait. When the Europeans first set foot on America, there were about 10 million Native Americans living in America, North of Mexico (“American”). Native Americans had all separated and made their own tribes. Some of the many Native American tribes that still exist are those of the Iroquoian tribes, consisting of five, now six, different tribes. The six tribes, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora, became known as the Iroquois Confederacy (“Iroquois”).
The Iroquois were often known as the “League of Peace and Power,” the “Six Nations,” or the “People of the Long house,” but they like to refer to themselves as the Haudenosaunee (“Iroquois”). Their name was given to them by their enemies, the Algonquin, who called them the......

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