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Contemporary Life

Today, the Iroquois live on reservations in New York, Ontario, and Québec, as well as in large Eastern cities, especially New York, Buffalo, and Albany in New York State, and Toronto, in Ontario. There is an Oneida group in Wisconsin and a Seneca-Cayuga group in Oklahoma. Representatives of the Six Nations still meet regularly in Grand Councils in Onondaga, New York, and on the Six Nations Reserve at Grand River in Ontario. Despite its political importance, the Iroquois Confederacy probably never numbered more than 25,000. In the 2000 U.S. census about 45,000 people identified themselves as Iroquois or Haudenosaunee only; an additional 36,000 people reported being part Iroquois. In Canada, 20,876 people identified themselves as Iroquois or Haudenosaunee in 2001.

See also Iroquoian (language family).