Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Americas, The
6. Native American
7. Native North American
8. [Eastern Woodland and Eastern Great Lake Native American]

Narrower term/s

• Cayuga (culture or style)
• Mohawk (culture or style)
• Oneida (culture or style)
• Onondaga (culture or style)
• Seneca (culture or style)
• Tuscarora (Iroquois speaking)

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the style and culture of North American Indian tribes speaking a language of the Iroquoian family, notably the Cayuga, Cherokee, Huron, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and Tuscarora, in addition to the Iroquois proper. The name Iroquois is a French derivation of Irinakhoiw, meaning "rattlesnakes." They call themselves Haudenosaunee, meaning "people of the longhouse." The Iroquoian linguistic groups occupied a continuous territory around Lakes Ontario, Huron, and Erie, in present-day New York state and Pennsylvania and southern Ontario and Quebec.