The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization
- ISBN-10
- 0807867918
- ISBN-13
- 9780807867914
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 454
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-05-01
- Publisher
- UNC Press Books
- Author
- Daniel K. Richter
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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