Iroquois

or Six Nations . The name given by the French to the Indian confederacy of the Mohawks, Oneidas, On on dag as, Cayugas, and Senecas, to which were afterwards added the Tuscaroras, after being driven from their hunting-grounds in North Carolina. This once formidable confederacy is now nearly extinguished, but remnants of it are still found scattered through the State of New York.