Michelle Cooper
The Iroquois Confederacy is consisted of six Aboriginal Nations (Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscaora which populated Upstate New York. Although there is no official date, it is believed that this unification had taken place somewhere between the 1400’s and the 1600’s. Some would also like to argue that the Confederacy had taken place on August 31 1142: the same day where a solar eclipse had occurred. It was not until 1720 when the Tuscaora had left North Carolina and became the Sixth Nation of the Iroquois Confederation.
The motive behind the Confederacy was to acquire peace and unity between the five Nations and put a halt to the constant “squabbling” of neighboring tribes. It is because of this why the Confederacy is also known as “The League of Peace and Power”. This act had been initiated by two Prophets: Hiawatha and “The Great Peacemaker”. As a result of their efforts, the Iroquois People had become one of the most powerful Aboriginal assemblies in Northeastern North America during the 17th and 18th centuries.