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This group of nations served as an inspiration for the Founding Fathers in fashioning the representative democracy and Constitution of the United States. Their delegates even visited the Continental Congress on June 11, 1776. What is the name of this group and who were the member nations?
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The Iroquois Confederacy. Formed around 1570, the confederacy, or Iroquois League was originally comprised of five tribes. Starting from east to west, they were the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas and the Senecas. In the early 1700s, the sixth tribe, the Tuscaroras migrated from North Carolina to the border regions between New York and Pennsylvania and united with the original five tribes into one cohesive alliance.
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