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border="0"><br><br><br> <center> <i>Iroquoian language family area</i><p> </center> <font size="+1"> Derived from an Algonkian word meaning "serpent." In the seventeenth century, the five member tribes of the League of the Iroquois of the Five Nations Confederacy (Kayanerenh-kowa, "the great peace," also known as Kanonsionni, the "long house") inhabited the territory south of the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario, from roughly the Richelieu River and Lake Champlain to Rochester, in what is now the State of New York. From east to west, they were: the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas. Their struggle with the Hurons for control of the fur trade largely dominated the military history of New France from the 1630s until the arrival of the Carignan-Sali�res regiment, in the summer of 1665. 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