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  2. Iroquoian peoples - Wikipedia

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    The Iroquoian peoples had matrilineal kinship systems. [16] They were historically sedentary farmers who lived in large fortified villages enclosed by palisades thirty feet high as a defence against enemy attack, these settlements were referred to as “towns” by early Europeans and supplemented their diet with additional hunting and ...

  3. Iroquois - Wikipedia

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    They are considered Iroquoian in a larger cultural sense, all being descended from the Proto-Iroquoian people and language. Historically, however, they were competitors and enemies of the Iroquois Confederacy nations. [11] In 2010, more than 45,000 enrolled Six Nations people lived in Canada, and over 81,000 in the United States.

  4. Category:Iroquoian peoples - Wikipedia

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    Iroquoian peoples — Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands cultural area, in eastern North America. Subcategories. This category has the following 10 ...

  5. St. Lawrence Iroquoians - Wikipedia

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    An artists conception of the interior of an Iroquoian longhouse. Prehistoric Iroquoian culture and maize agriculture in Canada is first detected by archaeologists in 500 CE at the Princess Point site in Hamilton, Ontario. Iroquoian culture is detected in the Saguenay River region of Quebec in about 1000 CE. By 1250 or 1300 maize was being grown ...

  6. Petun - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Petun Country superimposed on modern administrative boundaries. The Petun (from French: pétun), also known as the Tobacco people or Tionontati (Dionnontate, Etionontate, Etionnontateronnon, Tuinontatek, Dionondadie, or Khionotaterrhonon) ("People among the hills/mountains"), were an indigenous Iroquoian people of the woodlands of eastern North America.

  7. Wyandot people - Wikipedia

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    Wendat is an Iroquoian language. Early 21st-century research in linguistics and archaeology confirm a historical connection between the Wendat and the St. Lawrence Iroquois. [11] But all of the Iroquoian-speaking peoples shared some aspects of their culture, including the Erie people, any or all of the later Haudenosaunee, and the Susquehannock.

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  9. Genetic history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Schematic illustration of maternal (mtDNA) gene-flow in and out of Beringia, from 25,000 years ago to present. The genetic history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas is divided into two distinct periods: the initial peopling of the Americas from about 20,000 to 14,000 years ago (20–14 kya), and European contact, after about 500 years ago.