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As the 19th century progressed, the Cajuckonoo and Onatouwacka launched several wars against the peoples inhabiting their new territory. They waged war against the Siouan peoples of the Nieuwkonscka (Osage), Ockapa (Osage), and also the southeastern peoples of the Tsjickasja and the Sjouwanacki. This period, known as the Iroksenlandt Wars period (1816-1840), was one of the darkest times in Irokesenland history. Thousands of non-Iroquois died during the conflict, while some of the women and children who survived were assimilated into the Iroquois nation to sustain their population, very much reminiscent of the Beaver Wars against the Algonquins in the 17th century. The Dutch, who had favored the Iroquois peoples, did very little to stop the Iroquois in committing these atrocities. Eventually, the Dutch offered parcels of land west of Iroquois country to the displaced peoples, in what is now called Opdamsland.

In 1848, the Dutch sold land west of the Appalachian Mountain Range to the British, in an effort to prevent war over the contested region. The Iroquois who had lived there, namely the Ojateckeronoo (Cherokee), Tsjerohacka (Nottoway), Kouintsjacka (Meherrin), and the Scharoerieacka (Tuscarora), who were all southern Iroquois people, were moved to the western Iroquois country, south of Cajuckonoo land. These tribes, while still Iroquois peoples, were at the mercy of the Cajuckonoo and the Ojateckeronoo.

Over the entire 19th century, the Iroquois society had morphed into something completely different than what they had before the Europeans arrived. The trade and alliance with the Dutch led to heavy intermingling and intermarriages between their societies, and a growing mixed-race population, called the Irokees, was starting gain dominance. The shift towards western cultural styles were catalyzed by the creation of the Irokesenland protectorate. Irokees