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
Village in the country, a mosque, and a community centre ( or ). In Indonesia, depending on the principles they are administered, villages are called Kampung or Desa (officially "kelurahan"). A ""Desa"" (a term that derives from a Sanskrit word meaning "country" that is found in the name "Bangladesh"="bangla" and "desh/desha") is administered according to traditions and customary law ("adat"), while a "kelurahan" is administered along more "modern" principles. "Desa" are generally located in rural areas while "kelurahan" are generally urban subdivisions. A village head is respectively called "kepala desa" or "lurah". Both are elected by the local community. A "desa"