Example sentences for: iroquois

How can you use “iroquois” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Ontario and Québec, where encroaching forests gradually dispersed the herds of caribou, the Iroquois ousted the Algonquin and settled down to cultivate maize, beans, and squash, living in rectangular, multifamily longhouses.

  • Iroquois clothes and artifacts give a hint of life outside the stockade.

  • Montcalm was buried here after the battle, but only his skull remains, in a museum otherwise devoted to the convent’s first mother superior, who compiled the first dictionary of the Iroquois and Algonquin languages.

  • On the rue du Monument is a granite cross commemorating the wooden cross that Jacques Cartier planted on behalf of his French sovereign in front of a bemused audience of Iroquois.

  • The virgin forests were long a refuge for Algonquin Indians fleeing the Iroquois.


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