The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European ColonizationRichter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League--the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras--to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America. He demonstrates that by the early eighteenth century a series of creative adaptations in politics and diplomacy allowed the peoples of the Longhouse to preserve their cultural autonomy in a land now dominated by foreign powers. |
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Chapter One The Iroquois in the World on the Turtles Back | 8 |
The Emergence of Iroquoia 10500 B C 6000 B C | 12 |
The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in the MidSixteenth Century | 16 |
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