Sami Kanaan, left, Administrative Councillor of the City of Geneva, and Carine Ayele Durand, 2nd left, Director of the Museum of Ethnography of Geneva (MEG), give boxes containing sacred objects to representatives of Haudenosaunee Confederation Clayton Logan (Seneca Nation), 2nd right, and Brennen Ferguson (Tuscarora Nation), right, during the ceremony of restitution of sacred object to the Haudenosaunee Confederation, at the Museum of Ethnography of Geneva (MEG), in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, February 7, 2023. The MEG has returned traditional sacred objects, a mask and a rattle, to the Haudenosaunee after 200 years in Switzerland. The Iroquois (/ˈɪrəkwɔɪ/ or /ˈɪrəkwɑː/), officially the Haudenosaunee (/ˌhoʊdinoʊˈʃoʊniː/[3][4] meaning "people who are building the longhouse"), 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.