Prior to and immediately after European settlement, the land today comprising Lancaster and Fairfield County, Ohio was inhabited variously by the Shawnee, Iroquois, Wyandot, and other Native American tribes.

Part of Herkimer County was included in the Macomb's Purchase of 1791, during the wide-scale sale of public lands after the state forced Iroquois tribes allied with the British during the war to cede their territory.

The area covered by Seneca County straddles the prehistoric territories of both Seneca and Cayuga Nations of the Iroquois League.

Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the land Wayne County encompasses was originally part of the Iroquois Confederacy, which had existed from around August 31, 1142.

* Clifton, Illinois, village in Iroquois County

Will County was formed in 1836 out of Cook and Iroquois.

On January 12, 1836, Will County was formed from Cook County and Iroquois County.

The land which became Sullivan County was originally purchased from the Iroquois by the Province of Pennsylvania in 1768, as part of the first Treaty of Fort Stanwix.

Benton County's western border is shared with the state of Illinois and Iroquois County ; Vermilion County is to the southwest and shares a small portion of Benton County's border.

File: Vermilion County Illinois 1833. png | The county between 1833 and 1836, after Vermilion proper was reduced to its current borders through the creation of Champaign and Iroquois Counties

The county is bordered on the north by Iroquois County.

Iroquois County is a county located in the northeast part of the U. S. state of Illinois along the border with Indiana.

File: Iroquois County Illinois 1833. png | Iroquois County from the time of its creation to 1836

File: Iroquois County Illinois 1836. png | Iroquois County between 1836 and 1853

Historians including Donald Grinde, Bruce Johansen and others believe that the Iroquois constitution provided inspiration for the United States Constitution and in 1988 was recognised by a resolution in Congress.

Throughout these wars, New England was allied with the Iroquois Confederacy and Acadia was allied with the Wabanaki Confederacy.

He was secretary to a Provincial Council of Pennsylvania Indian commission in 1761 that made a treaty with the Delaware and several Iroquois tribes.

For decades after those wars, the land around eastern Lake Erie was claimed and utilized by the Iroquois as a hunting ground.

Lake Erie was the last of the Great Lakes to be explored by Europeans, since the Iroquois who occupied the Niagara River area were in conflict with the French, and they did not allow explorers or traders to pass through.

The lake was a border between the Huron and their vassals and the Iroquois Confederacy in pre-European times.

Many historical works give Caniaderi Guarunte as the Iroquois name for the lake ( meaning: mouth or door of the country ), because the waterway was an important northern gateway to their lands.

At one time the slave trade was so extensive that it caused increasing tensions with the various Algonquian tribes, as well as the Iroquois.

Before the arrival of the Europeans, the region was inhabited both by Algonquian ( Ojibwa, Cree and Algonquin ) in the northern / western portions and Iroquois and Wyandot ( Huron ) tribes more in the south / east.

French settlement was hampered by their hostilities with the Iroquois, who allied themselves with the British.

As well, there was no spread of this doctrine within the New World and the advanced civilizations of the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Mohican, Delaware, Huron and especially the Iroquois.

The Iroquois philosophy in particular gave much to Christian thought of the time and in many cases actually inspired some of the institutions adopted in the United States: for example, Benjamin Franklin was a great admirer of some of the methods of the Iroquois Confederacy, and much of early American literature emphasized the political philosophy of the natives.

After the war, the land of the Iroquois was parceled out to veterans of the army in payment for their military service.

In 1746, Johnson was made a colonel of the Iroquois.

When Clinton did not respond to his satisfaction, Chief Hendrick said that the " Covenant Chain ", a long-standing friendly relationship between the Iroquois Confederacy and the British Crown, was broken.

Champlain recounted that the Algonquins, with whom he was traveling, battled a group of Iroquois nearby.

In 1642, French missionary Isaac Jogues was the first white man to traverse the portage at Ticonderoga while escaping a battle between the Iroquois and members of the Huron tribe.

It was named for one of the tribes of Indians in the Iroquois Confederation.

The Iroquois Confederacy, according to oral tradition, was formed in 1142 CE.

The Iroquois Confederacy was an alliance of tribes, originally from the New York state area consisting of the Seneca tribe, Cayuga tribe, Onondaga ( tribe ), Oneida tribe, Mohawk nation, and Tuscarora ( tribe ).

The first people were created by Iosheka, a beneficent god who healed disease, defeated demons, and gave many of the Iroquois magical and ceremonial rituals.

It was the last of Illinois ' 102 counties to be formed, and was created at the behest of some residents of Vermilion County, who complained to the General Assembly that they were located too far from the Iroquois County county seat.

The devastation created great hardships for the thousands of Iroquois refugees outside Fort Niagara that winter, and many starved or froze to death.

The devastation created great hardships for the more than 5, 000 Iroquois refugees that winter, and many starved or froze to death.

Although 431 Air Demonstration Squadron was formed in 1978, its history truly begins during the Second World War when as part of the Commonwealth contribution to aircrew for the war in Europe 431 ( Iroquois ) Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force was created under the control of RAF Bomber Command.

Frontenac had been arranging a new plan of attack to mollify the effects of the Iroquois in North America and realized the true danger the imprisonment of the sachems created.

During King William's War ( 1689 – 1697 ), the French created raiding parties with native allies to attack English colonial settlements, as the English had used the Iroquois against the French.

The politicians of the town and area have created a plan that invites companies to bring business to Iroquois Falls.

The structure of the Iroquois economy created a unique property and work ethic.

By emphasizing an individual's usefulness to society, the Iroquois created a mindset that encouraged their members to contribute even though they received similar benefits no matter how hard they worked.

The Council distinguished the " Western European concepts of land ownership " from the Iroquois view that " the earth is sacred " and " was created for all to use forever — not to be exploited merely for this present generation.

Frontenac had been arranging a new plan of attack to mitigate the effects of the Iroquois in North America and realized the true danger the imprisonment of the sachems created.

The township was created on January 1, 1998, by amalgamating the former townships of Matilda and Williamsburg with the villages of Iroquois and Morrisburg.

A secondary, non-military result of the neutralization of the Six Nations Iroquois in this region was that it created " new " lands to allot to Colonial soldiers after the war in partial payment or reward for their service.