It means "great river".
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Haundenounee means Iroquois it another name for the Iroquois It means another name for Iroquois .
The Tonawanda Indian Reservation is 50 miles to the west. They are Senaca, in their own language: Onöndowága. They are part of the Iroquois Confederacy. There are 8 Iroquois groups in upstate New York and 7 in Ontario. There are about 125,000 people Iroquois in total, two thirds in the United States.
I think you mean 1860. No, there wasn't. At worst, the Confederacy could have reached as far as the Ohio River, but never beyond it.
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All the Iroquois tribes spoke their own languages; they are classed as belonging to the Iroquoian language family and all are closely related, but they are definitely different from each other and from other Iroquoian languages such as Erie and Huron.For example the Oneida word for fire is o·tsísteˀ. In Cayuga it is ode:kaˀ.The Oneida word for bear is ohkwa·lí; in Cayuga it is hnyagwai'.The Oneida word for water is ohne·kán or ohne·kánus; in Cayuga it is ohneganohs.Only the last of these three words clearly shows the connection between these two related languages.