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A depiction of Sir William Johnson holding a conference with the Iroquois at his home of Johnson Hall in 1772, painting by Edward Lawson Henry, 1903. Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau.

The Battle of Oriskany (6 August 1777) between a Patriot militia force and a party of Iroquois and Loyalists. Artwork by John R. Chapin, illustration from Ballou's pictorial, v. 12, no. 18 p. 280, May 1857.

French explorer Jacques Cartier named Canada after "kanata," the Huron-Iroquois word for settlement. Learn more about his search for a passage to East Asia and how he laid the original French claim for Canada in this video.

All the fun you had climbing up into bunk beds at summer can be traced back to the Iroquois in Northeast U.S.

Susan Elizabeth Ramírez’s In Praise of the Ancestors book underlines the fact that besides collective memories, the modern world’s sense of history is based primarily on written records stored in archives around the world. This book seeks...