After convincing all five Iroquois nations to form a political union, Dekanawidah bound them all into the confederacy with a symbolic bundle of arrows. "And each nation will contribute one arrow ...

The Iroquois attacked New France's outposts in the 1650s and 1660s, killing settlers and taking prisoners. (As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) The Five Nations were 12,000 strong and had ...

Before the United States created its Constitution, Indigenous nations among the Fingerlakes and five northeast woodlands tribes formed what’s known as the Iroquois or Haudenosaunee Confederacy.