iroquoian in English

adjective
1
of or relating to the Iroquois people or the Iroquoian language family.
Among western Iroquoian groups like the Huron and Neutral, men held a greater balance of the power in society.
noun
1
a language family of eastern North America, including the languages of the Five Nations, Tuscarora, Huron, Wyandot, and Cherokee. With the exception of Cherokee, all its members are extinct or nearly so.

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1. Each nation within this Iroquoian Confederacy …

2. What does Cherokee mean? The Iroquoian language of this people

3. The eastern woodland areas of what became Canada were home to the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples.

4. In the years following contact Algonquian and Iroquoian societies collapsed as bands were displaced by European colonial expansion

5. Cherokee, North American Indians of Iroquoian lineage who constituted one of the largest politically integrated tribes at the time of European colonization

6. Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ, Tsalagi Gawonihisdi [dʒalaˈɡî ɡawónihisˈdî]) is an endangered-to-moribund Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people

7. ‘Hallowell found scanty evidence for bear Ceremonialism in the Central Algonquian region, and failed to report any among Northern Iroquoian speakers.’ ‘It is a marvelous introduction to southeastern Indian Ceremonialism for general readers and a must-read for serious students of the Yuchi, the Creek people, and southeastern Indians in