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The name "Iroquois" has two possible origins: from the Haudenosaunee phrase "hiro kone" meaning "I have spoken in sorrow, in truth or in joy", which the French misheard as "Iroquois"; or from the Algonquin name "iroqu" meaning rattlesnakes, which the French called the Iroquois people after. To the Algonquins, the Iroquois were like silent rattlesnakes that attacked without warning.

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