I wonder if they could have joined the 13 original states with an Iroquis state during/after the revolution? Things were more fluid, and the US desperatly in need of allies at then time. I do not see such as state remaining "Iroquis" for very long, and it would undoubtedly not even be Iroquis majority after a while, but the precedent would be interesting.
Especially considering how many of the Founding Fathers were favorable to them.
Also, big fyi guys, for one thing its spelled '
Iroquois.'
Secondly, the peoples we're discussing refer to themselves as the
Haudenosaunee, which means "People of the Longhouse," or more accurately, "They Are Building a Long House." The word 'iroqouis' is a bad cross-translation from the tribes neighboring the Haudenosaunee to French, and in rough form it literally means 'black snake' or 'killer snake' - snakes in the grass, etc. A name may not seem like a big deal, but it is. While we don't refer to the French or Germans as
francais or
deutsch, we also don't call them Kraut or Frog either.
As in the case above, many common names for natives peoples are actually insults and loaded words. I use a simple rule of thumb to call groups by the names that they would call themselves when introducing themselves to you
