The Seneca call themselves Onondowahgah, People of the Great Hill, and are the western-most people of the Haudenosaunee, known today as the Six Nations Iroquois. Haudenosaunee means "People who Build Houses" and came to designate the League of the Iroquois. When this confederacy was founded, the Seneca were entitled Keepers of the Western Door. The Longhouse was not simply a dwelling but an idea: five nations, each with its own council fire, would live together as one household in peace, as the Kanonsionni, the Longhouse, with one mind, under one law, replacing killing with thinking and forming one commonwealth. With these words, the founder of the confederacy, known as the Peacemaker, addressed Jikonhsaseh, the Mother of Nations, the first woman to embrace the Great Law of Peace.