The Iroquois gave the first recorded sweet corn ( called Papoon ) to European settlers in 1779.

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.

Also in 1701, the Iroquois nominally gave the English much of the disputed territory north of the Ohio in the Nanfan Treaty, although this transfer was not recognised by the French, who were the strongest actual presence there at the time.

The Iroquois Confederacy gave a strong political role to women perhaps to as far back as its origins in the 12th century, although, as in 19th century New Zealand, this was expressed as support for a specific male, not the right to sit in council.

So in 1768, the Iroquois gave up their claim south of the Ohio, hoping thereby to deflect English settlement away from their own homeland.

These deeds gave corporate ownership of the reservation lands to the Six Nations of the Iroquois.

The British gave up both their and Indian claims to lands in treaty negotiations, and the Iroquois were forced to cede their lands to the United States.

The Iroquois Confederation dominated much of present-day Upstate New York and the Ohio Country, although the latter also included populations of Delaware, Shawnee, and Mingo.

He made much valuable archæological research, particularly concerning the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois, and published his findings in eight books between 1892 and 1908.

New York State took over the former Iroquois lands and sold much of the public land for development ( and speculation ).

Earlier in 1791, he purchased much of Northern New York along the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario, which the state had released for public sale after cession of the land by the Iroquois.

Like much of the region, Greensboro can trace its roots back to Native American settlement, to the Mingo tribes of the Northern Iroquois.

In 1660, settler Adam Dollard des Ormeaux led a Canadian and Huron militia against a much larger Iroquois force ; none of the Canadians survived, but they succeeded in turning back the Iroquois invasion.

In the spring of 1660, Adam Dollard des Ormeaux led a small militia consisting of 16 men from Montreal against a much larger Iroquois force at the Long Sault Rapids on the Ottawa River.

Tooker concluded there is little resemblance between the two documents or reason to believe the Iroquois had a meaningful influence on the American Constitution, and that it is unclear how much impact Canasatego's statement at Lancaster actually had on the representatives of the colonies.

The European war declaration arrived amid long-running tensions over control of the fur trade, economically vital to both French and English colonies, and influence over the Iroquois, who controlled much of that trade.

In July 1782, he and 460 Iroquois raided forts Herkimer and Dayton, but they did not cause much serious damage.

Although they claimed sovereignty over much of what is now Kentucky, the Iroquois did not actually reside there, as did their " Six Nations " ally, the Shawnee.

Following the war, much of the Iroquois land would be secured in the peace Treaty of Fort Stanwix ( 1784 ), later to be absorbed by controversial treaties with the State of New York.

They soon began to supply the Iroquois with firearms much as the Dutch had and encouraged them to disrupt French interests.

This Iroquois expedition captured a number of Delawares and destroyed abandoned Delaware and Shawnee towns in the Susquehanna Valley, but otherwise the Iroquois did not contribute to the war effort as much as Johnson had desired.

) In 1794, Red Jacket was a signatory, along with Cornplanter, Handsome Lake, and fifty other Iroquois leaders, of the Treaty of Canandaigua, by which they were forced to cede much of their land due to their alliance with the British during the war.

After the Iroquois returned to New York and the Northeast, they left much of the Northwest territory, Kentucky territory and Ohio Territory almost unpopulated and with empty villages.

He learned much about the Mohawk and Iroquois.

In relating this story, historian Barbara Graymont also notes that, as President, Washington had a good relationship with the Iroquois in the United States, so much so that the Seneca religious leader Handsome Lake ( Cornplanter's half-brother ) declared that Washington was the only white man allowed to enter the Indians ' heaven.

With continuing pressure after the American Revolutionary War, the Brotherton Indians of New Jersey migrated to New York, accepting an offer by the Stockbridge Indians, also Christian Indians, to settle on their reservation in the central part of the state, where they had been allocated land by the Oneida people, one of the Iroquois nations.

Ktunaxa people also encountered Christian Iroquois sent west by the Hudson's Bay Company.

The rise of Handsome Lake's religion was more successful than most religions during that time, apparently because his code combined traditional Iroquois religion with white Christian values.

The counties are: Adams, Brown, Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Fulton, Greene, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Iroquois, Kankakee, Knox, Livingston, Logan, McDonough, McLean, Macoupin, Macon, Marshall, Mason, Menard, Mercer, Montgomery, Morgan, Moultrie, Peoria, Piatt, Pike, Putnam, Rock Island, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, Stark, Tazewell, Vermilion, Warren, and Woodford counties.

In the spring of 1651 the Iroquois attacks became so frequent and so violent that Ville-Marie thought its end had come.

Historians once thought the Iroquois Confederacy started in the 16th century, but a more recent estimate dates the confederacy and its constitution to between 1090 and 1150 CE.

During his time in Canada, Sapir also acted as an advocate for Indigenous rights, arguing publicly for introduction of better medical care for Indigenous communities, and assisting the Six Nation Iroquois in trying to recover eleven wampum belts that had been stolen from the reservation and were on display in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania, the belts were only returned to the Iroquois in 1988.

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

They coalesced as a people around the Great Lakes, likely about the same time as the rise of the five nations of the historic Iroquois tribes, based in present-day New York.

By the time Mordecai had arrived, Creek had settled in the area, under pressure from Cherokee and Iroquois warfare to the north.

At the same time, news had arrived about the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, in which the Iroquois had ceded their claim to Kentucky to the British.

By the time of the cancellation of the Arrow and Iroquois, aircraft-related production amounted to approximately 40 % of the company's activities with 60 % industrial and commercial.

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

At the time of European encounter, the area was inhabited chiefly by the historic Iroquoian-speaking Mohawk of the Iroquois Confederacy to the west of Lake Champlain, with Algonquian-speaking Mahican to the south.

for thousands of years inhabited by varying cultures of indigenous peoples, at the time of European encounter, this was territory of the powerful Iroquois Confederacy, based in present-day New York state.

By the time of later French contact, for instance in the early 17th century with Samuel de Champlain, the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee: Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca, were allied in the Iroquois Confederacy, based in present-day New York.

The British force sent to capture Fort Carillon ( held by just 3400 French regulars and marines with almost no militia or Indian support ) was the largest ever seen in America ( at that time ) 16, 200 British, American, and Iroquois troops under the command of the dull political General James Abercrombie ( called Mrs. Nabbycrombie by his troops and aunt aubbie by his officers ).

Over time the colony grew in size and eventually was large enough to be secure from the Iroquois threat.

This was preceded by the Church and log school house completed before 1797 all located on the east bank of the 12 Mile Creek at the extreme west end of the what was known at that time as Main Street-an extension of the old Iroquois Trail and renamed St. Paul Street by the mid-19th century.

By the time they were mostly settled on the shores of Georgian Bay, The Huron-Wendat were the primary residents of the north shore of Lake Ontario and, somewhere in the 17th century, they were pushed out by the Haudenosaunee ( Iroquois ) people.

At the same time Calvert was seeking an end to a frontier war with the Iroquois to the north, having persuaded the intervening Susquehannocks to move to the Potomac River, well within Maryland territory.

Maryland sent Henry Coursey to New York to engage Andros and eventually the Iroquois in peace talks, while at the same time they sent surveyors to lay out plots on land also claimed by New York on Delaware Bay.

In 1696 Frontenac decided to take the field against the Iroquois, although at this time he was seventy-six years of age.

One hundred years, sometimes considered equal to seven generations, is a time horizon often cited by the ancient Iroquois and modern Greens.

Some anthropologists and historians have suggested the Mohawk of the Iroquois Confederacy destroyed and drove out the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, based on analysis of political and economic conditions at the time.

At this time, the conflict began to quickly grow between the Iroquois and Indians supported by the French.

At that time, the Dutch were the Iroquois ' primary European trading partners, with their goods passing through Dutch trading posts down the Hudson River and from there sent back to Europe.