Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee)

Type Object Region Northeast America Time 1450

The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy was a league of five (later six) Indigenous nations in northeastern North America, united under the Great La…

Timeline

c. 1450–1520Onondaga Lake area · Onondaga Nation territorySeneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk nations joined under a constitution of peace, establishing shared council procedures and clan-based governance.
1530–1540Haudenosaunee heartland · Finger LakesBy the 1530s the league operated as a stable diplomatic and military alliance, mediating disputes among member nations and projecting influence across the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes corridors.
c. 1550–1600Northeast woodlands · Northeast AmericaThe confederacy consolidated long-distance trade networks and territorial agreements, shaping power balances among neighboring Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples prior to intensive French and Dutch contact.

Sources

Haudenosaunee Confederacy https://www.britannica.com/topic/Iroquois-Confederacy
The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization — Daniel K. Richter (1992)