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Definition of Iroquoian

1. Noun. A family of North American Indian languages spoken by the Iroquois.

Definition of Iroquoian

1. a. Of, pertaining to, or designating, one of the principal linguistic stocks of the North American Indians. The territory of the northern Iroquoian tribes, of whom the Five Nations, or Iroquois proper, were the chief, extended from the shores of the St. Lawrence and of Lakes Huron, Ontario, and Erie south, through eastern Pennsylvania, to Maryland; that of the southern tribes, of whom the Cherokees were chief, formed part of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. All of the tribes were agricultural, and they were noted for large, communal houses, palisaded towns, and ability to organize, as well as for skill in war.

Definition of Iroquoian

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a Native American language family including the Iroquois and Cherokee. ¹

2. Noun. A member of the Iroquois people. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Iroquoian

Literary usage of Iroquoian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Native Cemeteries and Forms of Burial East of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell (1920)
"iroquoian TRIBES ADJOINING THE FIVE NATIONS Westward from the region just described, in the northern part of the State of Ohio, bordering on the south shore ..."

2. The American Indian: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the New World by Clark Wissler (1922)
"The iroquoian Area. Adjacent to, and in a sense between, the North and ... This was the range of tribes speaking iroquoian languages and it is from the ..."

3. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association (1890)
"... 274 iroquoian Mythologic Notes . 290 A Collection of Stone Implements from the District of Columbia 291 Drum-Telegraph of the Cameroon Natives 292 A ..."

4. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"... and in the Seneca version of the iroquoian genesis, the youth who brings the animals from the cavern of the Winds does, in fact, perform the office of ..."

5. Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society by Buffalo Historical Society (1920)
"Diagram showing the probable movements by which the pre-his- toric iroquoian nations entered their historic seats. ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Inds., 1907), whose Brother is sometimes represented as being after death the ruler of the spirit world. The iroquoian correspondent of Nanabozho is ..."

7. North American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1916)
"... and in the Seneca version of the iroquoian genesis, the youth who brings the animals from the cavern of the Winds does, in fact, perform the office of ..."

8. Native Cemeteries and Forms of Burial East of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell (1920)
"iroquoian TRIBES ADJOINING THE FIVE NATIONS Westward from the region just described, in the northern part of the State of Ohio, bordering on the south shore ..."

9. The American Indian: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the New World by Clark Wissler (1922)
"The iroquoian Area. Adjacent to, and in a sense between, the North and ... This was the range of tribes speaking iroquoian languages and it is from the ..."

10. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association (1890)
"... 274 iroquoian Mythologic Notes . 290 A Collection of Stone Implements from the District of Columbia 291 Drum-Telegraph of the Cameroon Natives 292 A ..."

11. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"... and in the Seneca version of the iroquoian genesis, the youth who brings the animals from the cavern of the Winds does, in fact, perform the office of ..."

12. Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society by Buffalo Historical Society (1920)
"Diagram showing the probable movements by which the pre-his- toric iroquoian nations entered their historic seats. ..."

13. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Inds., 1907), whose Brother is sometimes represented as being after death the ruler of the spirit world. The iroquoian correspondent of Nanabozho is ..."

14. North American [mythology] by Hartley Burr Alexander (1916)
"... and in the Seneca version of the iroquoian genesis, the youth who brings the animals from the cavern of the Winds does, in fact, perform the office of ..."

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