The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization
Richter 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...
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Richter 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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780807843949 (0807843946)
ASIN: 807843946
Publish date: December 14th 1992
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Pages no: 454
Edition language: English