Iroquoian peoples (original) (raw)

Iroquoian peoples are Iroquoian speaking Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands and Great Lakes of North America whose territories stretched from southeastern and southern Ontario in Canada along the shores of Lake Huron and Georgian bay, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario to New York state, northern Ohio and Pennsylvania. Historical Iroquoian people were the Five nations of the Iroquois or Haudenosaunee, Huron or Wendat, Tionontati or Petun, Neutral or Attawandaron, Erie people, Wenro, Susquehannock and the St. Lawrence Iroquoians. The Cherokee are also an Iroquoian-speaking people.