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Five Nations

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Noun

1. five nations, iroquois league, league of iroquois, six nations

a league of Iroquois tribes including originally the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca (the Five Nations); after 1722 they were joined by the Tuscarora (the Six Nations)

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Five Nations

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plural noun
(formerly) a confederacy of Native American peoples living mainly in and around present-day New York state, consisting of the Cayugas, Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, and Senecas
. Also called: Iroquois See also Six Nations

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Five Nations

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the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas as a group, constituting an early confederation of Iroquoian peoples
see also Six Nations

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Five Nations

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pl.n.
The Iroquois confederacy as originally formed by the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca peoples.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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