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Despite their own cultural differences the nations that comprised the Iroquois Confederacy established their political dominance across much of Americas East Coast and Midwest through conquest and it is that aspect which has perhaps best endured among Americans in terms of the Iroquois legacy European settlers who came into contact with the Mohawks in the Northeast certainly learned to respect their combat skills to the point that there were literally bounties on the Mohawks heads with scalps fetching money for colonists who succeeded in slaying them and carrying away the battle prize