Iroquois Finger Lakes region, and upstate New York along the St. Lawrence River area downstream to today's Montreal. French, Dutch and British colonists in both New France (Canada) and the what became the Thirteen Colonies recognized a need to gain favor with the Iroquois people, who occupied a significant portion of lands west of colonial settlements. Their first relations with them were for fur trading, which was favorable and became lucrative to both sides. The colonists also sought to establish positive relations to secure their settlement borders. For nearly 200 years the Iroquois were a powerful factor in North American colonial
Loda, Illinois About 8.5% of families and 16.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 27.8% of those under age 18 and 11.3% of those age 65 or over. Loda, Illinois Loda is a village in Loda Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census its population was 407. A post office called Loda has been in operation since 1880. The village derives its name from "Cath-Loda", a poem by Ossian. Loda is located in southwestern Iroquois County at (40.516400, -88.073975). U.S. Route 45 passes through the center of the village, leading north to Buckley and south