The people of the six-nation confederacy live in upstate New York. The Iroquois territory once covered most of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. Monday afternoon, New Mexico Gov.

In 1658 a secret council of the Five Nations voted for the destruction of the large fortified village Sainte-Marie de Gannentaha, in the heart of Iroquois territory, 200 km to the west of Albany.

The Iroquois have been rivals of New France for much of the last 80 years. They consider the French system of alliances a potent threat to their security and their territory. In New France ...