They may be fitly called the Iroquois of the West. From Wordnik.com. [Legends of the Northwest] Reference
These tribes, collectively known as Iroquois, form. From Wordnik.com. [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference
The Iroquois were the most intelligent of North American. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference
The guns and tomahawks of the Iroquois were the ruin of their hopes. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
The good spirit among the Iroquois is the one that gives good luck (perhaps Bhaga). From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference
When the early French explorers and missionaries came the name Iroquois cropped up. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Cities of Romance] Reference
How, now, my vigilant sentinel, can see anything of those you call the Iroquois, on the main land "!. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Mohicans] Reference
The Iroquois were a people far more conspicuous in history, and their institutions are not yet extinct. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
The Iroquois were a vigorous and intelligent people, with a brain approaching in volume the Aryan average. From Wordnik.com. [Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines] Reference
But the Nations of the Iroquois are a name to reckon with-and of all the Six Nations, the Mohawk are the fiercest. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
In Biegert's view, "the Great Law of Haudenosaunee", also known as the Iroquois, "can help us from our predicament". From Wordnik.com. [Conchita Sarnoff: The Nuclear Free Future Award] Reference
He added, "The general consensus is that the Iroquois are the inventors of the game and it would be like having the Olympics in Greece and not having the Greeks there.". From Wordnik.com. [Breaking News: CBS News] Reference
The intendant, Meules, shared something of his alarm, and informed the king that "the Iroquois are the only people on earth who do not know the grandeur of your Majesty.". From Wordnik.com. [Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV] Reference
"Iroquois" was long applied to this entire family of tribes. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Question (1874)] Reference
Some languages, however, such as Iroquois and Nahuatl, 3 employ the method of composition for much heavier work than this. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4. Form in Language: Grammatical Processes] Reference
An historic voyage took place 300 years ago this month when a contingent of "Iroquois" chiefs visited Queen Anne in London. From Wordnik.com. ["BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader] Reference
"He will be with the Iroquois, even though his tribe doesn't like them any too well; for the Iroquois are the conquerors of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughter of the Chieftain : the Story of an Indian Girl] Reference
"Iroquois," were alone audible, he walked away, to collect, and to examine into, the state of the captured arsenal of the Hurons. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757] Reference
Here they were blockaded for some time by the United States frigate "Iroquois," but finally escaped through the cunning of Semmes. From Wordnik.com. [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
In the distance he could see the lights of the "Iroquois," as she steamed slowly up and down in the offing, like a sentry on guard. From Wordnik.com. [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
The Iroquois were the Nadowebog big snakes. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ESKIMO WORDS FOR SNOW.] Reference
Hence the name of Ako - no-shu-ne, who were called the Iroquois. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
Not at N. Y.'s Iroquois Central, where even handholding is outlawed. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Squawkihow, but the office to which she was ordained was by the Iroquois. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
The two above are the legends concerning the principal medicines used among the Iroquois. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
Iroquois have turned it to account by assuming it as the very basis of their political and tribal bond. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
Back these plants with Iroquois or Oneida viburnum bred for their flower, berries, attractiveness to birds and fall color. From Wordnik.com. [Green Scene: Landscaping can make potential buyers feel right at home] Reference
Iroquois, not only in dispossessing them of their inheritance, but in the estimation which has been made of their character. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
But should the nation harbor the trespasser, then the nation must suffer the devastations of war at the hands of the Iroquois. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
In the meantime, John Obediah spoke to the stranger in all the different six languages of the Iroquois, but did not get an answer. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
Iroquois respected and even honored your counsels around the great council fire of the league, and now is destruction awaiting your dawn?. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
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