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Iroquoian and people
According to Iroquoian scholar Bruce Trigger, " Niagara " is derived from the name given to a branch of the locally residing native Neutral Confederacy, who are described as being called the " Niagagarega " people on several late 17th century French maps of the area.
It is named for the historic Iroquoian Mingo people.
Prior to the arrival of European settlers, the land that would become Nottoway County was inhabited by American Indians of the Nadowa tribe, an Iroquoian people.
It is named for the historic Iroquoian Mingo people.
In the early seventeenth century, this Iroquoian people called themselves the Wendat, an autonym which means " Dwellers of the Peninsula " or " Islanders ".
Another legend relates that the name is derived from the name of the Iroquoian Chief Sherando ( Sherando was also the name of his people ), who fought against the Algonquian Chief Opechancanough, ruler of the Powhatan Confederacy ( 1618 – 1644 ).
John Rutledge of South Carolina, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, is said to have read lengthy tracts of Iroquoian law to the other framers, beginning with the words " We, the people, to form a union, to establish peace, equity, and order ..." In October 1988, the US Congress passed Concurrent Resolution 331 to recognize the influence of the Iroquois Constitution upon the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.
* Cherokee language, a southern Iroquoian language spoken by Cherokee people
Cherokee (; sɑlɑgi ɣɑwonixiʃ ' di ; Oklahoma dialect: ɡawónihisˈdî ) is an Iroquoian language spoken by the Cherokee people which uses a unique syllabary writing system.
Prior to European settlement, Iroquoian people lived around Lakes Erie and Ontario, Algonquian peoples around most of the rest, and a variety of other indigenous nation-peoples including the Lakotan, Ojibwa, Illinois, Pottawatmie, Huron, Shawnee, Erie, Fox, Crow and Ho-Chunk ( Winnebago ).
Wyandot is the Iroquoian language traditionally spoken by the people known variously as Wyandot, Wyandotte, Wendat, or Huron.
According to Richard L. George: " I believe that some of the Monongahela were of Algonquin origin .... Other scholars have suggested that Iroquoian speakers were interacting with Late Monongahela people, and additional evidence is presented to confirm this.
* Before Europeans traveled to North America, first nations people, mostly Algonquian and Iroquoian, shared the land where Ontario is now located.
This may correspond to other Iroquoian notions of the Great Tree of Peace and the associated belief system of the people.
The Neutrals, also known as the Attawandaron, were an Iroquoian nation of North American native people who lived near the northern shores of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.
While they shared certain culture with other Iroquoian groups, archeological and linguistic studies since the 1950s have demonstrated they were a distinctly separate people.
He learned at least two Native languages, Delaware ( an Algonquian language ) and probably Mohawk ( an Iroquoian language ), which were spoken by the two major groups of people in the region.
Huron or Wyandot, was the language of the Susquehannock people, which is part of the Iroquoian language family
Huron or Wyandot, was the language of the Susquehannock people, which is part of the Iroquoian language family.
While they shared certain culture with other Iroquoian groups, they were a distinctly separate people and spoke a branch of Iroquoian called Laurentian.
Living with his father's family, Billy learned to speak both English and French, after having grown up learning the Iroquoian Mohawk with his mother and her people.
Oneida is an Iroquoian language spoken primarily by the Oneida people in the U. S. states of New York and Wisconsin, and the Canadian province of Ontario.
However, some people have speculated it was an ancient, pre-Columbian European settlement to which the Iroquoian oral tradition referred, such as the Norse settlement at L ' Anse aux Meadows.

Iroquoian and had
Based in New York and Pennsylvania, they had threatened to attack colonists on behalf of the related Iroquoian Tuscarora before they migrated out of the South in the early 1700s.
While early theories placed Huron origin in the St. Lawrence Valley, with some arguing for a presence near Montreal and other St. Lawrence Iroquoian peoples, archeological findings since the 1950s have demonstrated conclusively the Wyandot had no habitation there.
In 1687, Lahontan called it Lake Taronto, an Iroquoian term meaning gateway or pass ; Taronto had originally referred to The Narrows, a channel of water through which Lake Simcoe discharges into Lake Couchiching.
By 1100 AD, New York's main tribes, the Iroquoian and Algonquian cultures, had developed.
By around 1100, the distinct Iroquoian and Algonquian cultures that would eventually be encountered by Europeans had developed.
The Neutrals had an alliance with the Wenrohronon, both Iroquoian language peoples, to defend against the Iroquois Nations, but this dissolved in 1639, with devastating effects, particularly to the Wenro.
Historians and anthropologists believe they pushed out or destroyed the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, a discrete Laurentian ( Iroquoian )- speaking group who had inhabited villages along the St. Lawrence River since at least the 14th century.
Permanent French settlement however was hampered by their hostilities with the Iroquois five leagues ( based in New York State ), who were allied with the British and by the early 1650s, using both British and Dutch arms had succeeded in pushing other related Iroquoian speaking peoples, the Petun and Neutral Nation out of or to the fringes of territorial southern Ontario.
A document in a British Colonial Archive indicates that the Yamasee originally spoke Cherokee, an Iroquoian language, but had learned another language.

Iroquoian and been
The province is named after Lake Ontario, which is thought to have been derived from Ontarí: io, a Huron ( Wyandot ) word meaning " great lake ", or possibly skanadario which means " beautiful water " in the Iroquoian languages.
This village, designated as the " Lawson Prehistoric Iroquoian Village ", has been under study since the early 1900s.
While the Saint-Lawrence Iroquoian origin for the name Canada is now widely accepted, other explanations have been put forth.
What little is known about them has been derived from oral history of other Native American tribes, archaeology, and comparisons with other Iroquoian peoples.
The Erie spoke an Iroquoian language said to have been similar to Wyandot.

Iroquoian and away
In the early 18th century, the Iroquoian Tuscarora migrated to New York away from warfare in North and South Carolina ; in 1722 they were accepted by the Iroquois as the Sixth Nation of the Haudenosaunee.

Iroquoian and from
Far from forming a single ethnic group, Native Americans were divided into several hundred ethno-linguistic groups, most of them grouped into the Na-Dené ( Athabaskan ), Algic ( including Algonquian ), Uto-Aztecan, Iroquoian, Siouan – Catawban, Yok-Utian, Salishan and Yuman phyla, besides many smaller groups and several language isolates.
The river's name comes from the Seneca ( Iroquoian ) ohiːyo, a proper name derived from ohiːyoːh, meaning " good river ".
However, an alternative theory is that it derives from a lake and a county in New York state, which are said to bear the name derived from a Mohawk Iroquoian word meaning either " clear water " or " meeting place.
Its various bands shared a language distinct from that of the major language families in the present-day state: Algonquian, Siouan, and Iroquoian, including Cherokee.
Aside from being fluent in English, Brant spoke at least three, and possibly all, of the Six Nations ' Iroquoian languages.
The west and north were under constant attack from their powerful Iroquoian brethren, the Huron.
His ship becomes icebound, men suffering from scurvy aided by Iroquoian native, who feed them vitamin C in boiled spruce.
William Bright says the best that can be said of the name is that it is " probably from an Iroquoian source, but of unclear derivation ".
The following example from Oneida ( Iroquoian ) illustrates noun incorporation.
But, as evidenced by the journal of Jacques Cartier about his voyage to present-day Quebec, Canada, in the early 16th century, Canada's name stems from the Saint-Lawrence Iroquoian word " Canada ", which holds the same meaning.
The name Canada originated around 1535 from the Saint-Lawrence Iroquoian word meaning " village ", " settlement ", or " land "; another contemporary translation was " cluster of dwellings ".

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