and who’s land was it before the Iroquois? they werent the first on that land.
Everyone traveled from some where, unless people just popped into being at various spots on the earth.
Since humans have not existed forever, every bit of the earth was uninhabited before humanity. Some human had to be the very first to occupy any place on earth, whether "people just popped into being at various spots" or they were created in the Garden of Eden.