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Iroquois, a. and n.
(ˈɪrəkwɔɪ, -kɔɪ U.S., ˈɪrəkwa Canad.)
[Fr., from some Algonquian language, perh. Montagnais (G. Day in E. Tooker Iroquois Culture (1967), 57–61).]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to an American Indian group of peoples (the ‘Five Nations’) encountered esp. in Ontario and central and northern New York State, or to the languages of this group; = Iroquoian a.
B. n.
a. A member of this group (see Five Nations (five a. and n. C. 2)); also as collect. sing., this confederacy.
b. More widely = Iroquoian n.c. The languages of this group.
1666in Documents Colonial Hist. New-York (1853) III. 134 The Irocquois Indians should not cômit any Act of hostilety. 1677Locke tr. Nicole's Ess. (1828) 71 There needs not many other thoughts to make up the complete idea of an Iroquois. 1705[see Algonquin, -kin n. and a.]. 1710Shaftesbury Advice to Author 179 Historys of Incas or Iroquois, written by Friars and Missionarys. 1756[see Huron]. 1791[see Eskimo a. 1]. 1851Harper's Mag. Aug. 390/2 He fancied he heard her mutter in Iroquois one word—‘revenged’! 1852[see Five Nations (five a. and n. C. 2)]. 1866G. M. Wallace tr. Beethoven's Lett. II. 91, I must also strive to make some future provision for him [his nephew]; being neither Indians nor Iroquois, who, as we know, leave everything to Providence, whereas we consider a pauper's existence to be a very sad one. 1881[see gyneocracy]. 1922D. Canfield Rough-Hewn (1923) i, Neale was silent as an Iroquois. Ibid. xxv, His Iroquois mask of insensibility. 1933[see Cayuga]. 1959[see Five Nations (five a. and n. C. 2)]. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Ling. Spring 135 Iroquois speakers remain in New York State;..others remain in the Carolinas (Cherokee). 1969Listener 12 June 834/1 It is curious to think of Winston Churchill having Red Indian blood, but his mother was one-eighth Iroquois. |