Five Nations
Speech parts
1. Five Nations - Noun
2. Five Nations - Proper noun
Meaning
a league of Iroquois tribes including originally the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca (the Five Nations); after 1722 they were joined by the Tuscarora (the Six Nations)
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Hundreds of years before European exploration, the Iroquoian -speaking Seneca Nation developed in the central part of present-day New York; it became one of the first Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy).
Gibson played in 56 Five Nations matches (Italy had not become part of the Championship yet) between 1964 and 1979.
It expanded to the Five Nations in 1910, when France joined the tournament.
To that end, they cultivated contingent relations with the Five Nations of the Iroquois to procure greater access to key central regions from which the skins came.