Huron & Iroquois

The Colonial and Intertribal War series brings brief introductions to the conflicts between the Potawatomi, Nishnabe, and other tribal and colonial powers spanning 200 years between 1628 and 1830. Throughout that time, the Potawatomi participated in nine major conflicts prior to the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and forced removal by the U.S. government along the Trail of Death. The Beaver Wars began in 1628 and were the longest of those nine conflicts, lasting more than 70 years.

The Wyandotte Nation is a federally recognized Native American tribe headquartered in Wyandotte, Okla. The Tribe has nearly 7,000 tribal citizens nationwide.

The Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi is a federally-recognized tribe of Potawatomi in the United States. The tribe achieved federal recognition on December 19, 1995, and currently has approximately 1,500 members.

The Haudenosaunee languages belong to a family of 16 North American languages spoken around Canada and the United States. Most of the languages have been lost after falling out of use over time however those of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy including: the Mohawk,

ABOUT THE HAUDENOSAUNEE CONFEDERACY Called the Iroquois Confederacy by the French, and the League of Five Nations by the English, the confederacy is properly called the Haudenosaunee Confederacy meaning People of the long house. The confederacy was founded by the prophet known as the Peacemaker with the

The brief summary of the Iroquois Confederacy, also known as the Haudenosaunee. This alliance of tribes lived in North America at the time of European arrival in the New World.

Keith F. Otterbein, Huron vs. Iroquois: A Case Study in Inter-Tribal Warfare, Ethnohistory, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Spring, 1979), pp. 141-152