Possible Clues:

• Native American woman accepting rings without question
• Mohawk or Seneca, for example?
• Native American peoples originally living in modern New York state
• North American indigenous people
• North American Indian language
• Self-styled 'people of the longhouse'
• A lot of metal hoops abandoned by first of these native Americans
• Native American language
• Member of a former confederacy of six Native American peoples
• Am. Ind. confederacy