The clearings and the woods: The haudenosaunee (Iroquois) landscape-Gendered and balanced

Abstract

The core homeland of the Haudenosaunee, also known as the Iroquois, stretches east to west across what is now upstate New York State (Fig.2.1). Haudenosaunee (Ho-deh-no-show'-knee) means People of the Longhouse (Powless 2000:14). Iroquois was originally a pejorative used by Algonquian Indian enemies of the Haudenosaunee meaning real adders-that is, really nasty killers (Hewitt 1969a:I, 617). During the colonial period, however, the word Iroquois was used by the allies of the Haudenosaunee, the English, and even by the Haudenosaunee themselves, so that today the Haudenosaunee often refer to themselves as "Iroquois". © 2010 Springer-Verlag New York.