25 Facts About Haudenosaunee

Haudenosaunee preferred the etymology from Montagnais irin "true, real" and ako "snake", plus the French -ois suffix.

Haudenosaunee is the autonym by which the Six Nations refer to themselves.

Haudenosaunee derives from two phonetically similar but etymologically distinct words in the Seneca language: Hodinohso:ni:h, meaning "those of the extended house, " and Hodinohso:ni:h, meaning "house builders".

The name "Haudenosaunee" first appears in English in Lewis Henry Morgan's work, where he writes it as Ho-de-no-sau-nee.

Iroquois Confederacy or Haudenosaunee is believed to have been founded by the Great Peacemaker at an unknown date estimated between 1450 and 1660, bringing together five distinct nations in the southern Great Lakes area into "The Great League of Peace".

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When Europeans first arrived in North America, the Haudenosaunee were based in what is central and west New York State including the Finger Lakes region, occuping large areas north to the St Lawrence River, east to Montreal and the Hudson River, and south into northwestern Pennsylvania.

Haudenosaunee was offered the position as the titular chair of the League's Council, representing the unity of all nations of the League.

The attempts of both the English and the French to make use of their Haudenosaunee allies were foiled, as the two groups of Haudenosaunee showed a "profound reluctance to kill one another".

Several of the Catholic Haudenosaunee were outraged at this treachery to a diplomatic party, which led to at least 100 of them to desert to the Seneca.

Haudenosaunee's tenure was followed by the return of Frontenac for the next nine years .

Haudenosaunee decided to target the Oneida and Onondaga, instead of the Mohawk who had been the favorite enemies of the French.

Complex political environment which emerged in Canada with the Haudenosaunee grew out of the Anglo-American era of European colonization.

Haudenosaunee hired a lawyer to defend their rights in the Supreme Court of Canada.

Haudenosaunee, grief for a loved one who died was a powerful emotion.

The French during their wars with the Haudenosaunee were often astonished when a war party that was on the verge of victory over them could be made to retreat by killing one or two of their number.

Haudenosaunee engaged in tactics that the French, the British, and the Americans all considered to be cowardly, until the Americans adopted similar guerrilla tactics.

The Haudenosaunee preferred ambushes and surprise attacks, would almost never attack a fortified place or attack frontally, and would retreat if outnumbered.

Once the Haudenosaunee exhausted their supplies of beaver by about 1640, they were forced to buy beaver pelts from Indians living further north, which led them to attempt to eliminate other middlemen in order to monopolize the fur trade in a series of "beaver wars".

French Jesuits, whom the Haudenosaunee were forced to accept after making peace with the French in 1667, encouraged Catholic converts to move to mission villages in the St Lawrence river valley near Montreal and Quebec.

Haudenosaunee thanksgiving address is a central prayer in Haudenosaunee tradition recited daily in the beginning of school days as well as social, cultural, and political events.

Slaves brought onto Haudenosaunee territory were mainly adopted into families or kin groups that had lost a person.

Children and Indigenous peoples of neighbouring villages to the Haudenosaunee are said to have been good slaves because of their better ability to assimilate.

The brutality of Haudenosaunee slavery was not without its purposes; torture was used to demonstrate a power dynamic between the slave and the "master" to constantly remind the slave that they were inferior.

Haudenosaunee flag created in the 1980s is based on the Hiawatha Belt.

Haudenosaunee government has issued passports since 1923, when Haudenosaunee authorities issued a passport to Cayuga statesman Deskaheh to travel to the League of Nations headquarters.

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