Crossword-Solution: IROQUOIS
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| Iroquois | n. sing. & pl. | A powerful and warlike confederacy of Indian tribes, formerly inhabiting Central New York and constituting most of the Five Nations. Also, any Indian of the Iroquois tribes. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “IROQUOIS”
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| Confederacy which Hiawatha helped found. | 1 answer |
| Self-styled "people of the longhouse" | 1 answer |
| Red Jacket, for one. | 1 answer |
| Native American peoples originally living in modern New York State | 1 answer |
| Mohawks, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Mohawk's confederacy | 1 answer |
| Long house inhabitants | 1 answer |
| Confederacy of Native American tribes in northeastern North America | 1 answer |
| INDIAN of a powerful confederacy of tribes known as the Five Nations | 1 answer |
| Group with Mohawks and Senecas | 1 answer |
| People of the Five Nations | 2 answers |
| NORTH American Woodlands Indian | 3 answers |
| Iroquoian | 6 answers |
| NORTH American farming culture | 8 answers |
| AMERICAN Red Indian language | 8 answers |
| Helicopter crew | 10 answers |
| ANY MEMBER OF THE WARLIKE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN PEOPLES FORMERLY LIVING IN NEW YORK STATE | 11 answers |
| RED Indian language | 41 answers |
| NORTH American Indian language | 41 answers |
| AMERICAN Indian language | 43 answers |
| Indian | 91 answers |
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Sentences with IROQUOIS (5)
THE ELVES AN IROQUOIS LEGEND BY HARRIET MAXWELL CONVERSE (ADAPTED) The little Elves of Darkness, so says the old Iroquois grandmother, were wise and mysterious.
And who, I ask you, is to blame for this hideous war? Whose gold is it that buys guns and powder and lead to send the Shawnee and the Iroquois and Algonquin on the warpath?” He paused, and a hoarse murmur of anger ran along the ranks.
The warriors offered one of these horrible trophies to Champlain; they also presented him with some bows and arrows--the only spoils of the Iroquois which they had ventured to seize--entreating him to show them to the King of France.
The Mengwe, the Maquas, the Mingoes, and the Iroquois, though not all strictly the same, are identified frequently by the speakers, being politically confederated and opposed to those just named.
The ideas are mainly pre-Christian; the Brig o’ Dread occurs in Islamite and Iroquois belief, and in almost all mythologies the souls have to cross a River.
Quotes with IROQUOIS (3)
... the Iroquois take dreams very seriously. They see them as the secret wishes of the soul--the heart's desire, so to speak. Not all dreams, maybe, but the important ones. [p.254]
I sat at a lunch table with a professor of premonotheistic spirituality, plus several women from some of the tribes in this state that has more Native Americans than any other. All agreed that the paradigm of human organization had been the circle, not the pyramid or hierarchy — and it could be again. I’d never known there was a paradigm that linked instead of ranked. It was as if I’d been assuming opposition — and suddenly found myself in a welcoming world; like putting one’…
There is an Iroquois myth that describes a choice the nation was once forced to make. The myth has various forms. This is the simplest version. A council of the tribes was called to decide where to move on for the next hunting season. What the council had not known, however, was that the place they eventually chose was a place inhabited by wolves. Accordingly, the Iroquois became subject to repeated attacks, during which the wolves gradually whittled down their numbers. They …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1959–2020).