Location


 * Location:**

The Iroquois originally lived in northern part of New York between the Adirondack Mountains and Niagara Falls. Its maximum size of their empire was reached in 1680. Their empire went from the shore of the Chesapeake Bay through Kentucky to Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, then north to the Illinois River and, the southern Ontario. Finally it reaches south of New England.

During the hundred years proceeding the American Revolution, wars with French-allied Algonquin and British colonial settlement forced them back within their original boundaries once again. It was a disaster for the Iroquois when they decided to side with the British during the Revolutionary War. An American invasion of the Iroquois's home land drove many of the back into Ohio. This is where many of them have remained. Many Iroquois people were now residing in Canada. Much of their land was surrendered by them to land speculators of New York. This happened through a series of treaties. Despite this, many of them avoided removal and remained in New York anyway. The Iroquois's people were widely spread out by 1838.