page_title: Iroquois
section_title: Modern communities
hierarchical_section_title: Iroquois / People / Modern communities
caption_attribution_description: English: 1914 - Buffalo New York, Panoramic View of Iroquois.CREDIT: "Iroquois Indians." c1914. William Alexander Drennan, copyright claimant, 1914. Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991, Library of Congress.
context_page_description: The Iroquois or Haudenosaunee are a historically powerful northeast Native American confederacy in North America. They were known during the colonial years to the French as the Iroquois League, and later as the Iroquois Confederacy, and to the English as the Five Nations, comprising the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca. After 1722, they accepted the Tuscarora people from the Southeast into their confederacy, as they were also Iroquoian-speaking, and became known as the Six Nations.
  The Iroquois have absorbed many other individuals from various peoples into their tribes as a result of warfare, adoption of captives, and by offering shelter to displaced peoples. Culturally, all are considered members of the clans and tribes into which they are adopted by families.
  The historic St. Lawrence Iroquoians, Wyandot, Erie, and Susquehannock, all independent peoples, also spoke Iroquoian languages. In the larger sense of linguistic families, they are often considered Iroquoian peoples because of their similar languages and cultures, all descended from the Proto-Iroquoian people and language; politically, however, they were traditional enemies of the Iroquois League.
context_section_description: Several communities exist to this day of people descended from the tribes of the Iroquois confederacy.
caption: Iroquois in Buffalo, New York, 1914
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