To be more specific, what was life for them like before contact with Europeans? How did contact with Europeans change their lively hood? What wars did the participate in, and how did it benefit or harm them? What other major events were they involved with that took place during that time?
I'm writing a paper on the subject and I'm looking for more things to do a little more research on. Any help is greatly appreciated!
Given our rules on "homework" assistance, I won't be answering your questions directly here. Instead, I'll link to some related questions that I've already answered and give you some ideas for sources you might want to look into.
QUESTIONS
How sophisticated was the Iroquois Confederation's government at its peak?
How much do we know about how the Iroquois would have hunted?
What sort of firearms would the Dutch have sold to the Iroquois?
SOURCES
Beatty-Medina, Charles and Melissa Rinehart. Contested Territories: Native Americans and Non-Natives in the Lower Great Lakes, 1700-1850
Jennings, Francis. The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies from its Beginnings to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744
Johansen, Bruce Elliot and Barbara Alice Mann. Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee
Mann, Barbara Alice. Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas
Morgan, Lewis Henry. The League of the Iroquois
Rice, Brian. The Rotinonshonni: A Traditional Iroquoian History Through the Eyes of Teharonhia:wako and Sawiskera
Richter, Daniel K. The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the era of European Colonization
Richter, Daniel K. War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience
Shannon, Timothy J. Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier
Snow, Dean The Iroquois
Steele, Ian K. Warpaths: Invasions of North America
Sturtevant, William C. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 15
White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815