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Answer for the clue "An Iroquois ", 6 letters:
cayuga

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Population (2000): 1109 Housing Units (2000): 517 Land area (2000): 1.001951 sq. miles (2.595042 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.001951 sq. miles (2.595042 sq. km) FIPS code: 10954 Located within: Indiana ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cayugas \Ca*yu"gas\, n. pl.; sing. Cayuga . (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting western New-York, forming part of the confederacy called the Five Nations.

Usage examples of cayuga.

He had lived with the Assiniboin and the Cayuga, and had many stories from them, which he told with great skillif less sweat.

The chests of the Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca head chiefs were also bared to the glow.

They are the Onondagas, the Mohawks, Oneidas, Senecas, Cayugas, and Tuscaroras.

In this case the match was on a grand scale, Mohawks and Cayugas against Onondagas and Senecas.

The Mohawks and Cayugas retired, stripped of their goods and crestfallen.

Brown skins were streaked with blood, heads were cracked, and a Cayuga was killed.

The water sprite in Liysa may have enjoyed Cayuga Lake, but she was never an East Coast girl.

They walked along the side of the road till they reached Cayuga Drive.

These correspond with the Indian nations we know as the Onondaga, the Cayuga, the Seneca, the Mohawk and the Oneida.

Among them was a famous Cayuga war-chief called Ourehaoue, whose loss had infuriated the Iroquois.

In vain the Seneca and Cayuga deputies buried the hatchet at Montreal, and promised that the other nations would soon do likewise.

After them, in order of precedence, came the chiefs of the three junior nations, the Oneidas, Cayugas, and Tuscaroras.

A band of Cayugas arrived that night, and with them they brought a half starved and sick, Lenni-Lenape, whom they had picked up near the camp.

To-morrow he would be well, and he would be welcomed to the ranks of the Cayugas, a Younger nation.

Twenty warriors, mostly Senecas and Cayugas, were detailed to execute it at once, and they stole off toward the right.