Through the first half of the eighteenth century, the iroquois confederacy formed agreements and traded with

With France and Britain at the same time
  The confederation was made of five to six Indian tribes across upper New York state. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the confederation played a strategic role in the struggle between the French and British for mastery of North America. The five Iroquois nations, characterizing themselves as “the people of the longhouse