The Iroquois are said to have occasionally sent a maiden to the Great Spirit.

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 ).

At age 14, Livingston was sent to live a year with a missionary among the Iroquois Indians in the Mohawk Valley.

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 the Sullivan Expedition, the Continental Army sent a large force deep into Iroquois territory to attack the warriors and, as importantly, destroy their villages, crops and food stores.

The actions at Chemung made Sullivan suspicious that the Iroquois might be trying to defeat his split forces in detail, and the next day he sent 1, 084 picked men under Brig.

In February, 1780, former general Schuyler, now in the Congress, sent a party of pro-rebellion Indians to Fort Niagara to appeal for peace with the British-allied Iroquois.

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.

In 1663 the Iroquois sent an army of 800 warriors into the Susquehannock territory.

* 1665: The Carignan-Salières Regiment is sent from France to Quebec to deal with the Iroquois.

The name comes from an Ojibwa tale about an invading Iroquois war party who were sent over the falls by their Ojibwa captives.

Negotiations of more than a week were concluded on October 26, 1758, at a ceremony held in Easton, Pennsylvania between the British colonial governors of the provinces of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and representatives of 13 Indian nations, including the Iroquois, who sent chiefs of three of their nations to ensure their domination of the Ohio Country region ; the eastern and western Lenape ( Delaware ), represented by two chiefs and headmen ; Shawnee and others.

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

Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, both Britain and France claimed ownership of the Ohio Country, in competition with the Iroquois, and by the mid-18th century had sent merchants and fur traders into the area to trade with local Indians.

Following the beginning of open conflict between French and British colonists in 1754 with the Battle of Jumonville Glen, the governments of Britain and France both sent regular army troops to North America to further contest the disputed territories of the Ohio Country and other border areas, including the frontier between the French province of Canada and the British province of New York, an area in present-day Upstate New York that was then largely controlled by the Iroquois nations.

The Urban Indian program sent tens of thousands of Native Americans from the Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Iroquois, Lakota and Shawnee tribes into the oldest West Philadelphia neighborhood.

Millet was sent from France to Canada in 1667, and in 1668 he was stationed with the Iroquois.

Impressed by the Creek's diplomacy, the Iroquois sent 20 of their own ambassadors to accompany the Creek back home.

Sir William Johnson, his son John Johnson and son-in-law Guy Johnson and Brant used all their influence to engage the Iroquois to fight for the British cause.

The town of Edmeston, in Otsego County, extends to the west as far as the Unadilla River, a line that was established by the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix between the British and the Iroquois, negotiated by Sir William Johnson.

On July 6, 1754 a treaty was signed at Albany, New York between the Iroquois and the William Penn heirs, opening up portions of the west for settlement.

Iroquois land until a 1768 treaty, Chester County native and American Revolutionary War figure William Montgomery purchased a plot of land in 1774 and established a trading post called Montgomery's Landing.

General William Johnson with a force of 1700 American and Iroquois troops defeated a French force

Colonists, such as Phillip Schuyler, Nicholas Herkimer, William Johnson, trading with the Iroquois set the stage for commercial and military competition between European nations, leading to the French and Indian Wars and the American Revolution.

When Amherst learned through Sir William Johnson that the Iroquois League was prepared to support British efforts to drive the French out of their frontier forts, he decided to send an expedition to capture Fort Niagara.

In 1768, Fort Stanwix was the site of an important treaty conference between the British and the Iroquois, arranged by William Johnson.

Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet and other agents in upstate New York brought about the participation of the Iroquois.

In addition, colonial governor William Denny of Pennsylvania agreed to negotiate directly with the Lenape-Delaware again without Iroquois intervention and marked the agreement by rekindling a " council fire.

It was negotiated between Sir William Johnson and representatives of the Six Nations ( the Iroquois ).

Many of the loyalists and sympathizing Iroquois led by William Johnson's son Sir John Johnson escaped to Canada where they began to organize to take back their Mohawk Valley holdings.

In June William Johnson traveled to the Iroquois headquarters at Onondaga, and successfully negotiated support for the British side with the Iroquois, Shawnee, and Delaware, forces that Shirley also hoped to use for his expedition.

Amherst chose Brigadier General John Prideaux to lead the expedition, which also included Sir William Johnson, the British Indian agent who led the expedition's Iroquois forces.

But Sir William held a royal colonel's commission in his role as commander of the Iroquois auxiliaries, and so he insisted on remaining in command after a lower-ranking regular army officer, Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Haldimand, arrived on the scene.

William N. Fenton ( December 15, 1908 – June 17, 2005 ) was an American scholar and writer known for his extensive studies of Iroquois history and culture.

Starting at about age 15 during the French and Indian War ( part of the Seven Years War ), Brant took part with Mohawk and other Iroquois allies in a number of British actions against the French in Canada: James Abercrombie's 1758 expedition via Lake George that ended in utter defeat at Fort Carillon ; Johnson's 1759 Battle of Fort Niagara ; and Jeffery Amherst's 1760 expedition to Montreal via the St. Lawrence River.

In the summer of 1779 at Washington's direction, General John Sullivan carried out a scorched earth campaign that destroyed at least 40 Iroquois villages in central and upstate New York ; the Indians were British allies who had been raiding American settlements on the frontier.

A similar process had occurred earlier in the territories controlled by the Confederacy of the Six Nations in what is now upstate New York prior to the British invasion and subsequent U. S. annexation of the Iroquois nation.

Friction over Indian relations worsened in 1688 with French incursions against the Iroquois in upstate New York, and with Indian raids against smaller settlements in Maine.

He fought at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778, and in 1779, he accompanied Major General John Sullivan on the Sullivan Expedition against the Iroquois in upstate New York.

The North American Martyrs, also known as the Canadian Martyrs or the Martyrs of New France, were eight Jesuit missionaries from Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, who were brutally tortured and martyred in the mid-17th century in Canada, in what are now southern Ontario and upstate New York, during the warfare between the Iroquois and the Huron.

After a British army surrendered after the Battles of Saratoga in upstate New York in 1777, Loyalists and their Iroquois allies raided American Patriot settlements in the region, as well as the villages of American-allied Iroquois.

They made the group a research organization to collect information on the Iroquois, whose historical territory for centuries had included central and upstate New York west of the Hudson and the Finger Lakes region.

The territory of western upstate New York was Iroquois land, also disputed between the English colonies and New France, and that of Vermont was disputed with the Province of New Hampshire.

The Oneida ( Onę ˙ yóteˀ or Onayotekaono, meaning " the People of the Upright Stone, or standing stone ", Thwahrù · nęʼ in Tuscarora ) are a Native American / First Nations people ; they are one of the five founding nations of the Iroquois Confederacy in the area of upstate New York.

The North American Land Company and its patron, Robert Morris, held some Pennsylvania lands but was vested mostly in upstate New York, former Iroquois territory.

They methodically destroyed Iroquois villages, farms, stored crops and animals between May and September 1779 throughout the Iroquois homeland ( upstate and western New York ).

The Two Row Wampum treaty, also known as Guswhenta or Kaswhenta, is an agreement made between representatives of the Five Nations of the Iroquois ( Haudenosaunee ) and representatives of the Dutch government in 1613 in what is now upstate New York.