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Iroquoian
Iroquoian Ir`o*quoi"an ([i^]r`[-o]*kwoi"an), a.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, one of the principal
linguistic stocks of the North American Indians. The
territory of the northern Iroquoian tribes, of whom the Five
Nations, or Iroquois proper, were the chief, extended from
the shores of the St. Lawrence and of Lakes Huron, Ontario,
and Erie south, through eastern Pennsylvania, to Maryland;
that of the southern tribes, of whom the Cherokees were
chief, formed part of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia,
Tennessee, and Kentucky. All of the tribes were agricultural,
and they were noted for large, communal houses, palisaded
towns, and ability to organize, as well as for skill in war.
-- n. An Indian of an Iroquoian tribe.
Meaning of Iroquoian from wikipedia
- The
Iroquoian languages are a
language family of
indigenous peoples of
North America. They are
known for
their general lack of
labial consonants. The...
- HOH-din-oh-SHOH-nee; lit. 'people who are
building the longhouse') are an
Iroquoian-speaking
confederacy of
Native Americans and
First Nations peoples in...
- The St.
Lawrence Iroquoians were an
Iroquoian Indigenous people who
existed until about the late 16th century. They
concentrated along the s****s of the...
- The
Iroquoian peoples are an
ethnolinguistic group of
peoples from
eastern North America.
Their traditional territories,
often referred to by scholars...
- Proto-
Iroquoian is the
theoretical proto-language of the
Iroquoian languages.
Lounsbury (1961)
estimated from
glottochronology a time
depth of 3,500 to...
-
origin of the proto-
Iroquoian language was
likely the
Appalachian region, and the
split between Northern and
Southern Iroquoian languages began 4,000...
-
Mohawks mobilized against the
largely Algonquian-speaking
tribes and
Iroquoian-speaking
Huron and
related tribes of the
Great Lakes region. The Iroquois...
-
peoples of the
Northeastern Woodlands of
North America, and
speakers of an
Iroquoian language, Wyandot. In the
United States, the
Wyandotte Nation is a federally...
- Gawonihisdi, IPA: [dʒalaˈɡî ɡawónihisˈdî]) is an endangered-to-moribund
Iroquoian language and the
native language of the
Cherokee people.
Ethnologue states...
-
Susquehanna River in
central Pennsylvania. The Susquehannock, who
spoke an
Iroquoian language, were
based in
Western Pennsylvania from New York
state in the...
