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Term: Haudenosaunee

Definition:

literally, "People of the Long House"; the name used by the American Indian nations for the centuries-old alliance of tribes that white historians called the Iroquois League or the Five Nations.

View pictures relating to Iroquois Indians at Wisconsin Historical Images.

[Source: Loew, Patty. Indian Nations of Wisconsin (Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2001).]
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