| Organization name | Six Nations |
| Other names | Confederacy;Five Nations |
| Date founded | 1722 |
| Org type | Indian group |
| Bio notes | English name for the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a powerful alliance in the American Northeast that was originally formed by the Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, and Mohawk tribes between the 15th or 16th centuries or, according to oral tradition, much earlier. Also known as the Iroquois League, these tribes had similar languages and cultural practices (such as matrilineal kinship) and assimilated many other peoples through warfare and adoption. They were a major factor in colonial policymaking. Before adopting the Tuscarora Tribe in 1722, the Haudenosaunee were referred to as the “Five Nations.” Historically British allies against both the French and the American colonists, although some - particularly the Oneida - sided with the latter in the Revolutionary War. |
| See also | Seneca indians, Cayuga indians, Onondaga indians, Oneida Indians, Mohawk indians, Tuscarora indians |
| Citations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois |
Missionary's address to the chiefs of the six nation Indian & Their answers
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815
A Mission to the Indians from the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne, in 1804
Jacob Lindley's Account, 1793
Joseph Moore's Journal
Letter to the Quarterly Meeting of Friends at Hopewell
Address to the Six Nations
Account of Canandaigua Treaty Negotiations
Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1
New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook
Life of Thomas Eddy
Wm. Hartshorne's Journal of Journey to Detroit 1793
William Allinson Diary, Volume 1
William Allinson Diary, Volume 2
William Allinson Diary, Volume 3
Some Account of our Journey to Cannandaigue
A series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, by Joseph Sansom