"The Iroquois (/ˈɪrəkwɔɪ/ or /ˈɪrəkwɑː/) or Haudenosaunee (/ˈhoʊdənoʊˈʃoʊni/; "People of the Longhouse") are an indigenous confederacy in northeast North America. They were known during the colonial years to the French as the Iroquois League, and later as the Iroquois Confederacy. The English called them the Five Nations, comprising the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca. After 1722, the Iroquois accepted the Tuscarora people from the southeast into their confederacy, as they were also Iroquoian-speaking; the confederacy became known as the Six Nations.
The Iroquois have absorbed many other individuals from various peoples into individual families of their tribes as a result of warfare and adoption of captives, and offering shelter to displaced peoples. Culturally, when such adoptees become fully assimilated, they are considered full members of the families, clans and tribes into which they are adopted. Historically such adoptees have married into the tribes, and some have become chiefs or respected elders." - (en.wikipedia.org 10.08.2021)
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