One plot thread of The
Tenderness of Wolves
involves an artifact that may or
may not have belonged to the
The Five Nations, collectively known to themselves as the Haudenosaunee (People of the Long House), but better known today by the derogatory term given to them by white settlers, Iroquois meaning rattlesnake, are a group of Native American tribes consisting of the Seneca (People of the Great Hill), Cayuga (People of the Great Swamp), Onondaga (People of the Hills), Mohawk (People of the Flint) and Oneida (People of Upright Stone).
It is said that these five tribes formed a Union of Nations well before European ...