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Definition :

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