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Upon their arrival in the Fourth World, the Hopis were commanded by Masau, the god who had given them them land as their eternal inheritance, to go on a series of great migrations throughout the land. Sometimes they would stop and build a town, then either split when the population had grown above a certain number, or abandon the town and continue on with the migration. They were commanded to leave symbols ( 卐 or 卍, depending on weather they were coming back or going away from their original homeland)  behind on the rocks to show that Hopi had been there. These clans would travel for some time as a unified community, but almost inevitably a disagreement would occur, the clan would split and each portion would go its separate way.

In the course of their migration, each Hopi clan was to go to the farthest extremity of the land in every direction. Far in the north was a land of snow and ice which was called the "Back Door" (Bering land bridge) but this was closed to the Hopi. However, the Hopi say that other peoples came through the Back Door [Navajo raiders] into the Fourth World.  (SRC - Wikipedia)

The Iroquois (/ˈɪrəkwɔɪ/ or /ˈɪrəkwɑː/), Haudenosaunee (/ˌhoʊdinoʊˈʒoʊniː/; "People of the Longhouse"), or Ongweh’onweh (“real human beings”), are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of First Nations peoples in northeast North America/Turtle Island. They were known during the colonial years to the French as the Iroquois League, and later as the Iroquois Confederacy. The English called them the Five Nations, comprising the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca (listed geographically from east to west). After 1722, the Iroquoian-speaking Tuscarora people from the southeast were accepted into the confederacy, which became known as the Six Nations.

The Grand Council of the Six Nations is an assembly of 56 Hoyenah (chiefs) or sachems. Sachemships are hereditary within a clan. When a position becomes vacant a candidate is selected from among the members of the clan and "raised up" by a council of all sachems. The new sachem gives up his old name and is thereafter addressed by the title.

Today, the seats on the Council are distributed among the Six Nations as follows:

• 14 Onondaga

• 10 Cayuga

• 9 Oneida

• 9 Mohawk

• 8 Seneca

• 6 Tuscarora

Northern Iroquoian Language Family

Lake Iroquoian

Iroquois Proper

Seneca (severely endangered)

Cayuga (severely endangered)

Onondaga (severely endangered)

Susquehannock/Conestoga (†)

Mohawk–Oneida

Oneida (severely endangered)

Mohawk

Huronian (†)

Huron-Wyandot (†)

Petun (Tobacco) (†)

Tuscarora–Nottoway (†)

Tuscarora (†)

Nottoway (†)

Unclear

Wenrohronon/Wenro (†)

Neutral (†)

Erie (†)

Laurentian (†)

Southern Iroquoian Language Family

Cherokee language

Cherokee (South Carolina-Georgia Dialect) (Also known as Lower Dialect) (†)

Cherokee (North Carolina Dialect) (Also known as Middle or Kituwah Dialect) 

Cherokee (Oklahoma Dialect) (Also known as Overhill or Western Dialect

The Iroquois today have three different medicine societies. The False Face Company conducts rituals to cure sick people by driving away spirits; the Husk Face Society is made up of those who had dreams seen as messages from the spirits and the Secret Medicine Society likewise conducts rituals to cure the sick.[196] There are 12 different types of masks worn by the societies.[196] The types of masks are:

• The Secret Society of Medicine Men and the Company of Mystic Animals:

  • Divided mask that painted half black and half red;

  • Masks with exaggerated long noses;

  • Horn masks;

  • Blind masks without eye sockets.

Covenant Chain is embodied in the Two Row Wampum of the Iroquois, known as the people of the longhouse - Haudenosaunee. It was based in agreements negotiated between Dutch settlers in New Netherland (present-day New York) and the Five Nations of the Iroquois (or Haudenosaunee) early in the 17th century. Their emphasis was on trade with the Native Americans. As the historian Bernard Bailyn has noted, all the colonies, Dutch and English, were first established to create profits.

Among the Tuscarora tribe, an Iroquoian-speaking tribe historically settled in North Carolina;

"...their God, being unwilling to root them out for their crimes, did them the honour to send a Messenger from Heaven to instruct them, and set Them a perfect Example of Integrity and kind Behavior towards one another. But this holy Person, with all his Eloquence and Sanctity of Life, was able to make very little Reformation amongst them. Some few Old Men did listen a little to his Wholesome Advice, but all the Young fellows were quite incorrigible. They not only Neglected his Precepts, but derided and Evil Entreated his Person. At last, taking upon him to reprove some Young Rakes of the Conechta Clan very sharply for their impiety, they were so provok'd at the Freedom of his Rebukes, that they tied him to a Tree, and shot him with Arrows through the Heart. But their God took instant vengeance on all who had a hand in that Monstrous Act, by Lightning from Heaven, & has ever since visited their Nation with a continued Train of Calamities, nor will he ever leave off punishing, and wasting their people..." [12]

Jesuit priest and missionary Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix wrote in 1744:

The name Iroquois is purely French, and is formed from the [Iroquoian-language] term Hiro or Hero, which means "I have said"—with which these Indians close all their addresses, as the Latins did of old with their dixi—and of Koué