The ordeal of the longhouse : the peoples of the Iroquois League in the era of European colonization

Richter, Daniel K. (Author). Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Virginia.) (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 0807843946 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0807820601 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xvi, 436 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c1992.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-415) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The Iroquois in the World on the Turtle's Back -- The Great League of Peace and Power -- The Great League for War and Survival -- The Economic Lifeline to the Dutch -- The Ascendancy of the Francophiles -- The Revolt of the Anglophiles -- The Last of the Beaver Wars -- The Political Crisis of the Iroquois Confederacy -- The Precarious Settlement Abroad and at Home -- The Neutralist Diplomacy of Peace and Balance -- The Iroquois in a Euro-American World -- Methodological Comments -- Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- Notes.