The Iroquois ( IRR-ə-kwoy, -kwah), also known as the Haudenosaunee Confederacy ( HOH-din-oh-SHOH-nee; lit. 'people who are building the longhouse'), are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America. They were known by the French during the colonial years as the Iroquois League, and...
