The Iroquois were a confederacy of six Native American tribes located in northern New York and Ohio. The tribes were the Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Tuscarora, Onondaga, and Cayuga tribes, who formed a loose confederation that was arguably the most powerful Indian nation in the eastern United States during the late 17th to late 18th centuries. The Iroquois fought several wars against the colonists, such as the Kingdom of France and Great Britain, but they would form an alliance with the British in 1754 at the start of the French and Indian War, with four of the six nations siding with the British in the American Revolutionary War and the Oneida and Tuscarora siding with the United States during the conflict. After the war, the United States would resettle the Iroquois, who offered little resistance to the whites at the time of the Northwest Indian War. Today, the Iroquois tribes live in Upstate New York, including the Mohawk Valley region. In 2010, 80,000 Iroquois lived in America and 45,000 in Canada.
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