A persistent 19th and 20th century narrative casts the Iroquois as "an expansive military and political power . A turquoise-colored 1967 Russian Izh motorcycle, with a finned side car, as well as a German 1975 Hercules motorcycle powered by a Wankel engine also intrigue visitors.

During the Beaver Wars, they were said to have defeated and assimilated the Huron (1649), Petun (1650), the Neutral Nation (1651), [64] [65] Erie Tribe (1657), and Susquehannock (1680).

Lawrence valley as a buffer to keep the English-allied Haudenosaunee tribes, in what is now upstate New York, away from the center of the French fur trade in Montreal. As a result of the money earned from land rented to the Palatines, the Iroquois elite gave up living in longhouses and started living in European style houses, having an income equal to a middle-class English family. It is easy to see how the American Revolution would have caused conflict and confusion among the Six Nations. The People of the Confederacy dispute this historical interpretation, regarding the League of the Great Peace as the foundation of their heritage. Denonville justified enslaving the people he encountered, saying that as a "civilized European" he did not respect the customs of "savages" and would do as he liked with them.

S. Military Special Warfare Teams as expendables, because the Teams are Strategic Assets, that took a long time of 10 Years to 15 Years for each Team Member to become Fully Qualified. Other Iroquoian-language peoples, [55] including the populous Wyandot (Huron), with related social organization and cultures, became extinct as tribes as a result of disease and war.The Iroquois League was established prior to European contact, with the banding together of five of the many Iroquoian peoples who had emerged south of the Great Lakes. The Six Nations were very discontented with the encroachment of the English and their colonists upon their land. The attempts of both the English and the French to make use of their Haudenosaunee allies were foiled, as the two groups of Haudenosaunee showed a "profound reluctance to kill one another".