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Haudenosaunee

Noun

Meaning

Haudenosaunee pl (plural only)

The Iroquois people.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

They especially looked to Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) women’s power to appoint male political leadership, control their property, and have custodial rights to their children — those were legal rights white women did not have. Source: Internet

For those looking for a book to read during Cultural Awareness Month, Susan M. Hill’s recently published The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River (University of Manitoba Press, $27.95) is worth a look. Source: Internet

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). Source: Internet

Tehoka Nanticoke was a huge addition this season, according to his Iroquois Nationals teammate Chaunce Hill, who is excited to be at a program that embraces the Haudenosaunee game. Source: Internet

We have our Haudenosaunee people here in force with one of our citizens, Tonya Gonella of the Onondaga Nation, taking on the enormous task of serving as the key representative for Indigenous peoples at the UN. Source: Internet

Scattered archaeological evidence indicates the Iroquois also known as the Haudenosaunee controlled the area beginning about AD 1500. Source: Internet

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