The first full-length study of the Iroquois' actions during the American Revolution, and their history and culture.
Seeds of Empire recreates the events surrounding General John Sullivan's scorched-earth campaign against the Six Nations of the American Indians of New York and the Eastern territories in 1779, following the surrender of General John ...
In his first novel, author Jim Smith tells the story of the Seneca, one of the six nations of the powerful Iroquois Confederacy and allies of the British in the Revolutionary War, and the love story of Wah-say-lan and Freeman ...
How Native Americans contributed to the early American Republic and its Constitution.
For summaries, see Ronda and Axtell, ed., Indian Missions, passim; Axtell, Invasion Within, 271–86; Wheeler, “Women and Christian Practice in a Mahican Village,” RAC 13 (2003): 27–67; Wyss, Writing Indians, 1–16; and Winiarski, ...
The work covers the experiences of specific Native American groups such as the Abenaki, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Delaware, Iroquois, Seminole, and Shawnee peoples with information presented by chronological period and geographic ...
Examines the Native American experience during the American Revolution.
For their help and advice on those occasions (and others), I am grateful to Heidi Bohaker, Marc Egnal, Allan Greer, Adrienne Hood, Michelle Leung, Linda Sabathy-Judd, Ian Steele, and Sylvia Van Kirk. I also benefited from the feedback ...
A history of the people and events that influenced the North American Indian confederacy known as the Iroquois, including chief Hiawatha and conflicts such as the American Revolution.
An agricultural and matrilineal (the women owned all property and determined kinship) society, the Iroquois Confederacy was made up of six nations-the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora.
Examines the culture, history, and society of the Iroquois.