Onondaga people
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The Onondaga people are one of the five original nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in the Northeastern Woodlands. Their historical homelands are in and around present-day Onondaga County, New Y
Tadodaho Sid Hill, Traditional Chief of the Onondaga Nation at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Sketch by Samuel de Champlain of his attack on an Onondaga village.
Chief Isaac Hill Kaweneseronton, taken in Montreal in 1870 at William Notman's studio.
Iroquois Chiefs from the Six Nations Reserve reading wampum belts in Brantford, Ontario in 1871. Joseph Snow, Onondaga chief, is first on the left.
Mohawk people
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The Kanien'kehá:ka, also known by the name given them by the Dutch, "Mohawk", are an Indigenous people of North America and the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy.
Painting of Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant, by Gilbert Stuart (1786)
Kanienʼkehá:ka dancer at a powwow in 2015
Contemporary Quebec Kanienʼkehá꞉ka person performing a hoop dance at Wikimania 2017
Teyoninhokovrawen (John Norton) played a prominent role in the War of 1812, leading Iroquois warriors from Grand River into battle against Americans. Norton was part Cherokee and part Scottish.