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The founding of the Iroquois Confederacy of Five Nations came about in a campaign to bring peace to the warring, yet related tribes of the region around New York and the eastern Great Lakes. In 1722, these Native American people absorbed the Tuscarora tribe who were displaced from North Carolina and Virginia, their numbers greatly reduced by violence, enslavement of their people, and theft of their territory. The Iroquois then became the Six Nations. The five original tribes were, from west to east, the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and the Mohawk. The People of the Longhouse They did not call themselves the Iroquois Confederacy or Confederation in historic times. They referred to themselves as the Haudenosaunee, which means “people of
