Haudenosaunee

The Haudenosaunee, who call themselves the people of the longhouse and are also known as the Iroquois, lived in what is now New York. Their Confederacy joined the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca, whom oral tradition says the Great Peacemaker, Hiawatha and Jigonhsasee united under the Great Law of Peace. The date is disputed.

With muskets from the fur trade, the Confederacy dispersed or absorbed neighbouring peoples in the Beaver Wars, and around 1700 its power reached from the lower Great Lakes to the Ohio Valley. The Tuscarora joined it after 1722, making the Five Nations six. In the American Revolution the Confederacy split, and the Sullivan Expedition of 1779 devastated its towns.