Ganonsyoni

Ganonsyoni

Meaning roughly "The Lodge Extended Length-wise", Ganonsyoni was the name by which the Iroquois League referred to their alliance. The name is an obvious deriviation of the lodgings the Native Americans of the Eastern Woodland of the North America lived in. And while a standard family lodge was in fact a longhouse which a family of around 3 generations and their wives, the "The Lodge Extended Length-wise" held the alliance of five long-standing nations of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca.


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