@14:58. Where were these 5 original tribes located? Also, when you say “original tribes” does that mean original tribes of that certain area? I’m curious because I live in a neighborhood that some people call “the Indian neighborhood” because all of our street names are those of Indian tribes. Every one of those 5 tribes listed has a street in our neighborhood…plus, many more.
The map shown in the presentation gives their approximate location. The five nations of the Haudenosaunee are also known as the Iroquois. The nations covered different territory at different times throughout New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, but generally the Seneca were the westernmost ranging from the Rochester area to Seneca Lake in New York. The Cayuga lived in the area around Cayuga Lake, the Onondaga near Syracuse and Central NY, the Oneida in the Rome/Utica region and the Mohawk in the Adirondack region to the north. The Tuscarora were admitted to the confederacy later and granted lands in central New York. Many place names throughout the state were derived from native words or English pronunciations of them, not only the names of the nations, but also Canandaigua, Tonawanda, Coneseus, and Keuka. You can find more information about the Haudenosaunee on the New York State Museum website: www.nysm.nysed.gov/exhibitions/ongoing/first-peoples
