Haudenosaunee mythology

Haudenosaunee mythology, or Iroquois mythology, includes the creation stories and other religious oral literature of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy composed of six nations of Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands in Canada and the United States. Five nations, the Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Seneca, founded the confederacy. They were joined by the sixth nation, the Tuscarora, in the 18th century.

Some of these stories are recorded in wampum, which served as mnemonic devices, although now they can no longer be read. Haudenosaunee authors began writing down their oral histories and cosmologies in the 19th century. David Cusick (Tuscarora, c. 1780–1840) published Sketches of the Ancient History of the Six Nations in 1826.

In the written versions, the spellings of names differ due to diverse orthographies.