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iroquois
/ˈɪɹəˌkwɔɪ/
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What does iroquois mean?
noun
- A member of a confederacy of (originally) five Native American (Indian) tribes: the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, and the Senecas.
- A kind of hairdo where both sides of the head are shaved, leaving only a stripe of hair in the middle.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the Iroquois confederacy, its people, language, or culture.
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proper noun
- Any of the languages of the Iroquois, belonging to the Iroquoian family of languages.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɪɹəˌkwɔɪ/
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In the mythologic tales of the Iroquois, the child appears frequently as a hero and an adventurer.
What is there unreasonable, therefore, in supposing that the Iroquois came in contact with them, and that this tradition rests on facts?
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From this sun-land, represented as "a tortoise," always the emblem of an island, the Iroquois derive the knowledge of "how to make fire."
It seems that some hundreds of years ago these ordinarily peaceful folk descended on the Iroquois in what is now New York, and massacred a village or so.
When the maize is ripening, the Iroquois know it is the sun's heat that ripens it, but they know more; it is the cigala makes the sun to shine and he does it by chirping, by uttering his orenda.