The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early ... History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)

Type

Book

Authors

Daniel K. Richter

ISBN 10

0807843946

ISBN 13

9780807843949

Tags

Native American, Colonial Period, Europe, Native American Studies, United States, Social Sciences

Description

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. - from Amzon

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