Abstract
The Iroquois confederation, also called the League of Nation was a confederation of five Nations. These Nations of Iroquois were the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas and the Senecas). A sixth Nation (the Tuscaroras) joined the confederation in the early eighteenth century. They occupied a belt of country extending across the present State of New York from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. We do not know exactly at what date the League had been formed. A wide range of estimates exist, the scholars have different opinions concerning the date of the foundation. Iroquoian sources fixed it at between 1000 A.D and 1400 A.D. But most of the historians prefer to place the origin of the Iroquois League at about 1450 A.D. When the first Europeans arrived, they met a strong, well organized Iroquois League. Iroquois confederation was powerful and controlled both Hudson-Mohawk and St. Lawrence valleys, and controlled access to the Great Lakes. They had a strategic position on passages into North America gave. They played a major role in North American history. But the thing that caught the eyes of the first Europeans and of all the people who met them was their political system, their government.
