Where is the Haudenosaunee located?
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Asked by: Keith Franco
New Yorkprimarily in present-day New York, between Lake Erie and the Hudson River. They inhabited a forested area below the St. Lawrence.
Where is the Haudenosaunee territory?
The Iroquois (Six Nations) Confederacy, known widely by the Cayuga word Haudenosaunee, meaning the People of the Longhouse, today have five communities ranging across southern Ontario, eastern Quebec and south into New York State.
What is the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee?
Kingston – the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) peoples.
How big is the Haudenosaunee territory?
The Treaty of Canandaigua provided the Oneida as well as other Haudenosaunee nations with six million acres of land primarily in New York. Later treaties and actions by New York State cut down the territory to 32 acres. Finally in the 1830s many of the Oneida relocated into Canada and Wisconsin.
When did the Haudenosaunee come to Canada?
The Haudenosaunee (called Iroquois by the French and Six Nations by the English) first came into contact with Europeans when Jacques Cartier sailed down the St. Lawrence to the villages of Stadacona (present-day Quebec City) and Hochelaga (present-day Montreal) in the 1500s.
Are Haudenosaunee same as Iroquois?
The Haudenosaunee, or “people of the longhouse,” commonly referred to as Iroquois or Six Nations, are members of a confederacy of Aboriginal nations known as the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
