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The Ordeal of the Longhouse

The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization

Daniel K. Richter

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Published: 05/2011
Pages: 454
Subject: History, Social Science | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807867914

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.

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